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Is there an API available for grabbing Google Streetview images at a particular location (and direction)? I see that its possible to get and position the Flash control, but I’d prefer something that just gave me a JPEG (or some other bitmap format).
You’re looking for the Static Maps API.
Unfortunately, they haven’t finished the work on having a static Street View map(The Static Street View API is now available). As comments 4 and 5 indicate, you may be able to get the thumbnail images used for Street View (though you may have to actually have Google load that particular image before being able to grab it and potentially cache it yourself). Other than that, you’re stuck with the Flash control.You may be able to have a service on the backend that essentially takes a screen cap of the Flash control and caches it, but that’s a bit hackish.