

If prompted, you will want to add the location of the photo, and upload time will vary obviously, depending on how large your Google Sphere's file size is.Įither way you choose to share your images, this can be a great way to share with people a unique view of your favorite locations around the world, and can be a great way to browse locations in which you yourself are interested. Doing this is as easy as clicking the import from camera icon and choosing your Google Sphere, or, even more simply, dragging and dropping the image. So I took a few photosphere pictures and read it was possible to share it on G+ or G.Maps, but I just do not have the google maps icon in the sharing menu, and when I share on google plus, it shares the simple picture. Uploaded PhotoSphere got listed under SV app, as Published and Approved.

#Upload photosphere to google maps update#
Update : Thanks to some insightful folk on the GitHub forum there is a fix you can apply that restores the integration between pyExifToolGui and ExifTool on Macs running Yosemite or El Capitan. Using PC->Desktop Maps, PhotoSpheres can be uploaded to POI.
#Upload photosphere to google maps how to#
Lastly, you will need to go to Google Views and import your Photosphere in Google Maps so that it appears when others search for that location. In this tutorial Ill show you how to prepare non-android created 360 panoramas for uploading to Google Maps Views via Mac OSX. Otherwise Google+ will shrink the image down a bit and you may lose some resolution and clarity from your image. One key point you may want to check first is making sure your settings are set to allow you to upload images at full size. Google Street View was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and until November 26, 2008, featured camera icon markers, each representing. If you correctly added the XMP metadata earlier, Google will automatically recognize it as a PhotoSphere image. You will need to log into your Google+ profile and upload the image there. The easiest way (and for some phones, the only way) to submit a photosphere to Google maps is to go to the location and submit the photosphere as you make it. Once you export the final panorama in jpg form, you will need to add XMP metadata so that Google, after you upload the Photosphere in Google Maps, recognizes it as a Photosphere and knows where to file the image's location on Google Maps. I took a photosphere with google street view app and shared it on google maps. With your own camera, you will need to shoot multiple overlapping images and then import them into your preferred photo stitching software on your computer.
