Additionally, business owners or real estate agents could also capture and publish Street View imagery using special (read expensive) 360-degree cameras.īut now, anyone with an ARCore compatible smartphone can create their own connected Street View photos and help Google to fill in the gaps on Maps much more rapidly. The updated Street View app on Android now allows anybody to collect contribute a series of connected images of a street or path.Įarlier, the onus of collecting images fell primarily on Google’s iconic Street View cars that have collected more than 170 billion images from 10 million miles around the planet. Your panorama should be in JPG format, not TIFF, and ideally be a complete 360° horizontal x 180° vertical panorama, known as spherical 'equirectangular', having an aspect ratio of exactly 2:1.Īlternatively you can use 'cylindrical' panoramas with widths of less than 8000px by following the simple modifications shown at the end of this page.Google Street View – millions of panoramic images on Google Maps that have served as a delightful time-guzzler for us over the years – announced a fundamental change in its data collection process late last year. 'Panorama Studio' This can then be saved as a 'spherical' or alternatively a 'cylindrical' image. Almost any compact camera or DSLR will produce a set of overlapping images which can be stitched together with suitable software such as There are numerous web sites available explaining how to produce 360° panoramas with non-Android digital cameras. However, it may still be possible to produce and upload a 'Photosphere' using Windows, if you follow these instructions. 'Street View' app is so far only available for Android and Apple iOS, but not for Windows desktops. 'Google+ for consumers' was due to shut down in April 2019, The 'Add a photo' tab was removed from the row of thumbnails,

'Google Map Maker' was retired in March 2017,

'Google+ Auto-Awesome' feature is discontinued, 'Panoramio' linking your photos to Google closed in 2016, You may have noticed that the Google Maps site frequently changes:

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