Is it possible to determine if a Street View is user submitted using the Google Maps JavaScript API?

Question

Here is an example of a user submitted Street View vs a Google created view.

Given a lat/lng, is it possible to determine whether the Street View is user submitted?

As a heuristic, I can check pano.getLinks().length === 0, but it's hacky at best.

EDIT: Looks like a StreetViewPanorama object has a streetViewDataProviders property which could be checked for the data source?

Answer 1

Not sure if it can be done using the Google Maps JavaScript API but the closest to use is the copyright property from google.maps.StreetViewPanoramaData

StreetViewPanoramaData

• The representation of a panorama returned from the provider defined using registerPanoProvider.

A StreetViewPanoramaData is an object of the following form:

{
copyright: string,
location: {
description: string,
latLng: google.maps.LatLng,
pano: string
},
tiles: {
tileSize: google.maps.Size,
worldSize: google.maps.Size,
heading: number,
getTileUrl: Function
},
links: [
description: string,
heading: number,
pano: string,
roadColor: string,
roadOpacity: number
]
}

copyright - Specifies the copyright text for this panorama.

Hope it helps!