How to check if Google Street View available and display message?

Question

I am passing lat and lng variables and display google sreet view in a div. The problem is that when the StreetView is unavilable then nothing is displayed. I would like to c

Answer 1

You may want to check out the following reference:

• Google Maps API Documentation: Street View Client Querying

Determining whether a road supports Street View by visual inspection of the GStreetviewOverlay is not often feasible, or desirable from a user's perspective. For that reason, the API provides a service which programmatically requests and retrieves Street View data. This service is facilitated through use of the GStreetviewClient object.

Basically you can use the getNearestPanoramaLatLng() method of the GStreetviewClient class, which will return you a GLatLng of the nearest point where street view is available. You can then use the distanceFrom() method to check if the nearest street view point is within a certain threshold from your source point.

Here is a full example, which I believe should be self explanatory: