Quickstart — your first extraction¶
From zero to a map of coverage in about two minutes. No API key needed for Google.
1. Install¶
2. Find the nearest blue line to a point¶
You'll get the nearest official car panorama — its id, capture date, distance, and a link that opens it in Street View. It is never a photosphere.
3. Extract an area to GeoJSON¶
--bbox is west,south,east,north. Or use a named area:
Add --precision for pure car coverage (drops trekker/indoor; slower).
4. Look at it¶
Open the live GUI and drag your coverage.geojson
onto the map. Toggle sources, color by capture year, click a line to inspect it, or click the map
in Nearest mode to find the closest pano.
Prefer no install? The GUI's "Full Bucharest" button shows a whole city with zero setup.
What next¶
- How the blue-line filter works (methodology) — the exact, testable rules.
- Reproduce the proof — re-run the coverage sweep yourself.
- Live Google in the GUI — deploy a tiny free proxy so the browser can extract Google too.
- What you may do with the output — per-source licensing.