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Collecting graphical data from a Google Street View object

As the name suggests, I have a Google Street View object in my webpage. My program "drives" certain routes, in essence I drive the Google Street View API through an embedded Java applet (on the same page).

I need to be able to capture images from my current Google Street View panorama - I don't care how to do that. If this cannot be done using the Google API - I am completely confident that I am actually "grabbing" the image from what the Flash object contains - regardless of whether it is done with javascript or a Java applet, the graphic data should be ultimately delivered to a Java applet for processing.

What, if any, are my parameters?

Please note that I am not trying to save the image to the filesystem, nor am I trying to violate Google's terms of service - I am just analyzing the image of my current position to decide where I am ...

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Why not find the position of the div inside the window (using javascript) and then translate that to the position of the window on the screen (using javascript) and then escaping those borders using java?



Sounds funny to me, but hey .... This is kind of a crazy question :)

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