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Introduction

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This kit helps you obtain spherical/equirectangular panoramas from google streetView

The panoramas can most probably not be used in commercial projects

and they are watermarked

This panoramic image can be applied to a simple Daz Studio primitive sphere and act as a background image

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History

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august 2 2018 4AM - new version mcjMosaicHTML5August2422AM.html

will work for more streetview locations and has a button to download the image

because chrome blocked the "save image" way of doing things

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Use

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Go to https://www.google.ca/maps

Search for Japan Ueno Park

Drag And Drop the yellow StreetView stickman on the park

you'll be dropped down to streetview

copy Your Browser's URL which looks something like

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Ueno+Park/@35.714038,139.773296,3a,75y,113.26h,90t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sDL1txH4VkTWOoChA6RYMeQ!2e0!3e5!4m2!3m1!1s0x60188e9d9894e52f:0x2791c2d9eecb63e6!6m1!1e1

The New Way ( June 9 2015 )

If your browser supports HTML5 the way Google Chrome on Windows supports it then

Download mcjMosaicHTML5 here or take it from the attachments section at the bottom of this page

Paste your Google Maps Streetview URL in the textbox

click the submit button

the panorama mosaic will appear, for now it's an HTML5 canvas

your browser will jump to another location containing the panorama, but as a normal jpeg image which you can save or copy !

The Olden School Way

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Download and open the web page mcjMosaic.html here or from the attachments section at the bottom of the page

Paste your Google Maps/StreetView URL in the box

Click the 'Submit' button

and there you go, you see a mosaic of images that form a Spherical/equirectangular panorama

It's huge, larger than most screens

Using your keyboard's Print Screen button and a paint program you could obtain your big panoramic image

but if you are familiar with command-line utilities

you could get the free set of utilities named Imagemagick from

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php

there's amny versions pn the above page, but for windows 64 bit this one will be ok :

http://www.imagemagick.org/download/binaries/ImageMagick-6.9.1-4-Q16-x64-dll.exe

the example that follow will work only if you installed imagemagick in a folder named c:\imagemagick

so you also need to be familiar with disk operations like renaming folders

While you can still see the mosaic in your browser

save that web page and the tons of little images it contains by choseing the "WebPage, Complete" option

lets say you saved this in C:\Users\Public\Documents\SkyBalls under the name JapanUenoPark.html

our 90 images are in the SkyBalls\JapanUenoPark_files folder

download mcjMontage.bat ( in a zip file ) from here or from the attachments section at the bottom of the page

note since .bat ( batch ) files are powerful and dangerous when used by malicious hackers

google, your antivirus and Windows will warn you about it

In fact just now, Google prevented me from attaching mcjMontage.bat to this page

so i placed it inside a ZIP file

in case something prevents you from getting mcjMontage.bat

here it is, and as you can see it's innocuous.

You could copy-paste this in notepad or any plain-text editor and save it as mcjMontage.bat

place mcjMontage.bat in the SkyBalls\JapanUenoPark_files folder

run mcjMontage.bat by double-left clicking on mcjMontage.bat

If you indeed installed imagemagick in c:\imagemagick

then a few seconds later you will have a big panoramic image named montage.jpg

we're talking 6656 x 3584 image !

i used a paint program to remove the black strip at the bottom

here's montage.jpg resized to 2000x1000 pixels

You can get a Poser/Daz compatible sky-sphere which is compatible with these panoramas

here : https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts5/mcjskysphere

The Olden Linux Way to get the CBK images

Linux includes the curl tool which can be used to download files from the net

the syntax is curl -o outputfilename URL

so i include herein an html page and javascript code

which will print on-screen a batch file

which can then be used to download the 91 images that form the mozaic

so all you need is to be able to figure how to create a batch file and run it in Linux

The Esmwy Python way for MACs and Linux

Daz3D forums user Esemwy devised a way to download the images and assemble the mosaic-panorama

version 2 is the most recent and was accompanied by the notes:

the python code ( copied from the forum page ... so it may be broken )

can be found at the bottom of this page as ESEMWY_VERSION_2.PY

But the latest version will be here : https://gist.github.com/esemwy/75b9ef7fd042d4947745

Version 1 is 1 day older and was accompanied by the ntes

the python code ( copied from the forum page ... so it may be broken )

can be found at the bottom of this page as ESEMWY_VERSION_1.PY