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From Google maps street view to your 3d environment


Jamie Cardoso
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The following tutorial depicts the process of grabbing the Google street view map and automatically transforming it into a full panoramic map, followed by inserting it into a 3D environment, for reflections.

 

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The article can be found in the following link:

 

http://jamiecardoso-mentalray.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/google-maps-to-streetview-grabber.html

 

 

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  • 4 weeks later...

gave it a try--works a treat!

 

It's true that the imagery is not really all that great, but it can be a decent base to model over, build backgrounds.

 

Once you have the pano, it is pretty easy to render out to flats. Here I have four that would form a square, but it can be wider for an elevation, too.

 

I have to put a sculpture of mirrored balls in front of this building, need a reflection map.

 

Now. How about a similar tool for grabbing from Bing streetview? Often Bing's images are better than Google's. Also Nokia has here.com with streetview and I think those are the ones Apple uses.

 

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