Yeah, I'm with Dozzie on that one. How are you guys figuring this out?
After reading around the forum, the best way to find what the current URL format Google uses is to visit Google Maps, and using either Firebug in Firefox or Web Inspector in Safari/Webkit you can inspect one of the tiles to get the image URL.
As of right now, here's an example of a Google Street Image URL in London, UK.
From the query string, we can see the x, y and z params that we need. The other stuff isn't needed. Plus as Google uses multiple servers, we don't need the "mt0" bit at the beginning, just "mt"
Maemo Mapper uses the "zoom" param instead of "z", as it uses 1 for the closest, up to 17. The "z" value is reversed by subtracting the "z" value from the maximum zoom.
Using the example above, this would mean that:
17 - 13 = 4
The "zoom" value would be 4, which would give us
I had a look at the site, and the map is not generated in the way others are. It seems to use a simple X,Y coordinate based on the level of zoom, therefore there are less map tiles when you are zoomed out all the way, and thousands when zoomed in close.
I tried using the url format of the image tiles, and although it managed to download them in mapper, the map itself was offset by a large amount.
For example, I live in the UK, so my gps marker would give a good indication where I am in the world, and according to the terra map, my gps location was in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, halfway between South American and Africa!!!
I had a look at the site, and the map is not generated in the way others are. It seems to use a simple X,Y coordinate based on the level of zoom, therefore there are less map tiles when you are zoomed out all the way, and thousands when zoomed in close.
I tried using the url format of the image tiles, and although it managed to download them in mapper, the map itself was offset by a large amount.
For example, I live in the UK, so my gps marker would give a good indication where I am in the world, and according to the terra map, my gps location was in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, halfway between South American and Africa!!!
