Google Street View Black Screen Portable Than If

We can apply color coding, as above, apply marking and filtering to narrow our searches.

An interesting way to extend our idea of drill-down is to invoke Google Street View to get a view of the installations that are visible.

Google has instructions on using its Google Street View Static API.

There is also a helpful article on Stack Overflow that provides examples of using the API with parameters.

In Spotfire, well use this new column to populate labels in a Map Visualization that can be clicked to take us to Google Street View.

The same links are also available in a Table visualization in Spotfire.

The artist is listed as Charles Brown and the description is Replica of a Tlingit pole taken from a Tlingit village in Alaska in the early 1900s.

Its latitude, longitude coordinates listed as 47.6021,-122.334067 so we will want to form the string.

My preference is to add a line in the TERR function, so it returns the URL ready for Spotfire to use.

Google Street View Black Screen Portable Than If

This makes our solution more portable than if we were to use a Custom Expression.

We configure this layer so that Marker By is set to (Row Number).

The key here is in the Display options area, we want to show this as Link as shown here.

When marked, the street view link appears as a link we can click on right from the Spotfire Map Visualization.

As a note, not all the artwork can be seen from street view, and some panning is usually needed to view the works.

The entire town of Newhalem is owned by the Seattle City Light power company, where workers from the nearby Skagit River Hydroelectric Plant live.

The art installation is created to showcase the history of power generation in the area.

Apart from this art installation example, such a facility could be used to investigate locations with anomalous characteristics, such as intersections with higher than usual accident rates.

Spotfire provides several methods for using these links, including labels directly within a Map Visualization, or directly from a Spotfire Table View.