I am using the Google Street View Image API ( https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/streetview/ ) to get a 640x640 bitmap of the photo-sphere currently displayed in my app. I am able to obtain this bitmap when Google has the copyright on the photo-sphere, but not when the photo-sphere was contributed by an individual. Am I doing something wrong or does the Google Street View Image API not return a bitmap in such case?
What I'm getting, when the author is an individual, is a white bitmap that says on it "Sorry, we have no imagery here".
This is a known issue reported in the Google Maps API public issue tracker:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35831151
The issue was acknowledged by Google, however they didn't expose any ETA regarding when it might be fixed.
I can suggest staring the issue to express your interest and receive further updates from Google.