"View in Street View" didn't bring me to the proper pano

[jonfroehlich]

I love the "View in Street View" option that we have; however, I ran into a problem with it this morning.

In Gallery, I was viewing this image:

Then I clicked on "View in Street View"

But if you click on that link, you get the following with a message "No street view imagery available here":

From looking at the image and street intersections, I was able to derive the actual location, which is (Google Maps Link):

Any ideas why this might have happened @misaugstad? Is this just a one-off problem or did GSV maybe change their API a bit? Or why can't we access the exact pano? It seems like it does indeed exist here.

[misaugstad]

Oh that's really weird, I'm not sure what's going on! I just tried this out and managed to reproduce a few times. At least with the ones that I was able to do, the images were at approximately the same location, just from a different period in time. Though from your example it looks like it might be a totally different location.

[jsomeara]

It works when setting the pano parameter to the pano id instead of specifying the viewpoint coordinate.

Example:

https://www.google.com/maps/@?api=1&map_action=pano&heading=100.06115868735137&pitch=-8.92242188029158&pano=-5CroQWZ8xZZl-NGKuIPxQ

Are there any downsides of switching to pano instead of viewpoint? (If not, I can make a PR with the fix)

[misaugstad]

It works when setting the pano parameter to the pano id instead of specifying the viewpoint coordinate ... Are there any downsides of switching to pano instead of viewpoint? (If not, I can make a PR with the fix)

No idea why we wouldn't have been using the pano ID already, so we would definitely welcome a PR!

[jsomeara]

Made a PR: #3608