Command line tools for downloading Streetview Imagery from Google and combining them into a single bitmap world map.
Do not fear, only about 300 lines of code!
Example output: http://davidstolarsky.com/18154
** Note: This code worked as of ~January 2012. It uses an undocumented Streetview API which may no longer work. See https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/streetview/ for a new official API.
** Note 2: The code for cutting a single output image into a tiled map suitable for web interaction is not contained here. I used something that export "Zoomify" format, which OpenLayers.js supports. https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/ and http://www.maptiler.org/ are GUI applications that do similar things.