falcondai/svcrawl

crawl Google streetview images

Google StreetView Crawler

Created for UChicago Knowledge Lab StreetScope Project.

features

• downloads StreetView images from Google API
• provides a MongoDB database model for panoramas with convenient functions
• utility scripts

dependencies

• You might have to install libjpeg-dev and python-dev on Ubuntu for PIL to build and work: (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8915296/python-image-library-fails-with-message-decoder-jpeg-not-available-pil).

• requirements.txt contians python libraries that you can install by $ pip install -r requirements.txt

usage

To scrape streetview images for locations from a CSV file and save them into MongoDB: $ ./latlong_to_sv.py chicago-crime-sample.csv --lat Latitude --long Longitude

author

Falcon Dai

license

MIT License