roadTripper

A script which navigates across Street View links and takes date stamped screenshots for making time-lapses!

Requirements

PhantomJS (http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/)

USAGE

• create lastposition.txt and add a Latitude,Longitude,Heading e.g.: -34.143238,18.929973,312.9375

• from the command line run: phantomjs roadTripper.js

• images will be saved to the configured images folder, default images in the current folder

• the time and position of each image will be logged in the configured capturelog file, default capturelog.txt

CAVEATS

It's clunky and error-prone. You will find you have to go back and re-capture images which means manually editing lastposition.txt. It will also get lost. This script was originally designed to go along a national highway, without detours, and it wasn't very good at that. There is more to come though!

#BABYSITTING Having problems with it getting lost at a certain point?

• Open up viewport.html in your browser
• Append #controls to the URL
• Press alt-c and paste the last good lat,long,heading coordinates (from the image filename*
• get to the new position you want, perhaps by double-clicking or manually selecting the correct link
• press alt-p and copy the new lat,long,heading into your lastposition.txt
• try again at the command line

PLANNED FEATURES

• Use Google Directions API to follow a route (no more geting lost).
  • This includes a tool for easily selecting a route.
• A tool for easily re-capturing bad images.

LICENSE

roadTripper's source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.