Open Street View

One of the biggest draws of the Google Maps API is having access to Google's impressive Street View access around the world. If yous desire to render your users alongside street marking panoramic images too so the Google Maps API is likely your best choice. However if yous entirely involve static street marking images in that place are other options.

One such alternative is OpenStreetCam. OpenStreetCam is a platform for collecting too providing costless too opened upwards street marking imagery. OpenStreetCam is developed yesteryear Telenav. The primary aim of the production it to render georeferenced street sentiment imagery to assistance people ameliorate OpenStreetMap. The OpenStreetCam imagery tin live on used yesteryear anyone nether a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence. You are thus costless to re-create too purpose OpenStreetCam on your ain non-commercial maps.


Mapillary is likely the best known platform for capturing too sharing street marking geo-tagged photographs. So far Mapillary, too its users, convey collected 467 1000000 images providing street marking photographs of 6.7 1000000 kilometers of roads.

The geo-tagged photos on Mapillary tin every bit good live on used nether a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If CC BY-SA doesn’t adjust your needs yous tin every bit good pay for a commercial license to access Mapillary imagery too derived metadata. You tin notice out to a greater extent than near the Mapillary API at Mapillary Developer Tools.