I’ve just picked up an SC2 and am looking for options to display on a map. Main use will be leisure ( walking, festivals etc ) rather than business, so maybe a URL for an event ( eg “Our coastal walk” ).
I saw that the Google Street View app is going away and replaced with Google Street View Studio … however this doesn’t support individual images only mp4’s. I have managed to create such an mp4 from a series of 360 images but Google is still processing the images after a couple of days.
In the past I’ve used OpenStreetMaps umap ( eg Glastonbury - uMap ) - I have figured out how to display 360 images in an iframe … so this is one option.
Facebooks Mapillary ( https://www.mapillary.com ) is another option … but again its taking days to process image.
The THETA android app does have a “theta360” tab but that just shows me “404 File Not Found” so I can’t tell what that might do for me.
Had some follow-ups to the above post … as supected the PhotoSphere blue dots always snaps to the place name. As a poster said, “… the blue dot feature is useless.”.
Banged my head against this for months. Blue lines via mp4’s DO work with the app. Adding single 360’s via Google maps app doesn’t. Free solution: emulate an older version of street view:
Presumably this example was posted to google maps with either the street view app ( no-longer works ) or, as you suggest, the expensive Pano2VR ( which throws an error for me ).
Really good idea, thanks.
To summarise my investigations -
Upload 360 picture with Google Maps app or Google Maps web the location (blue dot) is shown as the named place, not the location of the picture
Current Google Street View app does work (for me) and anyway is being withdrawn … work-around is to run an older version under emulation
Google My Maps doesn’t support displaying of 360 pictures
Testing with Pano2VR started to work ( picture was uploaded to correct place ) but then Pano2VR throws an error
It’s possible to use the Google API to upload a 360 picture with the location (blue dot) is the actual location of the picture
It should be possible to convert a set of 360 jpg’s to an mp4 and upload via Google Street View Studio … but I found it never gets past “processing” stage ( running more than a week )
Umap works … ie has enough hooks to display 360 pictures. However, pictures do need to be stored on your own server
Finally, I found the android THETA app crashes whilst attempting to parse dates … reported to Ricoh but I’m not hopeful
I’m sure glad I didn’t invest a lot in the camera.
I might end up writing a stand-alone cli tool to upload 360 pictures to google maps ( via the API ) and perhaps generate umap configurations. Or maybe hosting my own umap instance.
Ah, thanks. I would expect Pano2VR to get it right ( although I did see an error myself when I tried the trial version once, although the picture itself was uploaded correctly ).
Street View Studio only Takes in Videos not Single Photos.
Uploaded 360 Photo to Google Maps via iPhone waiting for it to be published and see results of the location/photo-sphere. Wasn’t straightforward for me to do.
Also before I uploaded, the app asked me to “Choose a location” and I set it as Palo Alto, CA
