One of the biggest draws of the Google Maps API is having access to Google's impressive Street View access merely about the world. If you lot desire to furnish your users alongside street score panoramic images together with so the Google Maps API is likely your best choice. However if you lot alone demand static street score images at that spot are other options.
One such alternative is OpenStreetCam. OpenStreetCam is a platform for collecting together with providing gratis together with opened upward street score imagery. OpenStreetCam is developed past times Telenav. The mind aim of the production it to furnish georeferenced street sentiment imagery to attention people amend OpenStreetMap. The OpenStreetCam imagery tin post away last used past times anyone nether a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence. You are hence gratis to re-create together with purpose OpenStreetCam on your ain non-commercial maps.
Mapillary is likely the best known platform for capturing together with sharing street score geo-tagged photographs. So far Mapillary, together with its users, convey collected 467 1000000 images providing street score photographs of 6.7 1000000 kilometers of roads.
The geo-tagged photos on Mapillary tin post away too last used nether a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If CC BY-SA doesn’t accommodate your needs you lot tin post away too pay for a commercial license to access Mapillary imagery together with derived metadata. You tin post away discovery out to a greater extent than almost the Mapillary API at Mapillary Developer Tools.
