Showing Street view instead of map view

[Aleksi]

If you want to show the Street view, you can do that if you have a LatLong field already. Create an URL column and use App formula like…

CONCATENATE("[https://www.google.com/maps/@?api=1&map_action=pano&viewpoint="&SUBSTITUTE([LatLong]]," “,”")&"&heading=-45&pitch=10&fov=80")

How to use options with the URL you can find from this page…

Google Developers

Get Started  |  Maps URLs  |  Google Developers

Maps URLs provide a universal URL scheme to launch Google Maps from any platform.

[Koichi_Tsuji]

Once you capture the location data, latlong, do you want to view that particular location on Google ... Tips & Tricks 💡

For Apps used in various field works, it is useful Appsheet feture to capture the location where the event happens, like the location when the data is captured, such as image taken. We are able to expand this feature in a super easy way. Once the Apps capture latlong in the field, then use this column as anchor to construct the URL jump to Google Street View. Those are steps how to achieve this. Powered by the acquisition by Google, this feature and tips potentially get more powerful with th…

[Aleksi]

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[Koichi_Tsuji]

[Koichi_Tsuji]

In my apps, I pass google map street view URL to external API which capture web site screenshot,which generates the thumbnails

Without going to google map, app user can get the instant access to the view how it looks like.

[spf]

Hey Koichi, I’ve been reading a lot of your tips and they’re great!

Was trying to implement this screenshot directly on the App using miniature.io (another one of your tips), but it does not seem possible… Do you know what could be the cause? Maybe I will need to send a key to Google Maps…?

I attached the screenshot to the message

[Koichi_Tsuji]

There are bunch of similar services available on the web, to capture the screenshot out of URL, but the ones I introduced here is free service, where they have limit to the usage or capability.

To conver the Google Street views, the most reliable services ( as far as we use for our clients prodution apps) is service with paid one like

https://www.filestack.com/products/image-transformations/

Depending on your judgement if you are ready to move to paid service to get the stable perforance against what you want.

[spf]

Thanks for the tip. This feature was merely intended for a better immersive experience on the user side - will probably postpone it to a later date. Nonetheless, I should already know how to do it!

[Enrique_Avila]

This is cool what’s the formula for that?that’s awesome.