Google Maps - Street View Static Image

Question

Is there a way to insert an address into a link and have it bring up the street view?

For instance:

Answer 1

Might be best to use Google Maps JavaScript API v3 to do it. See documentation and sample code at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/services.html#StreetView.

Here's code from that page (with a few extraneous bits removed) that displays a street view:

Note that the code uses latitude and longitude rather than address. If all you have is a street address, you can use Google's Geocoder object to convert an address to a LatLng object.