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GOOGLE IS NOW allowing users to create their own street view panoramas, which can be shared on Google Maps.
Announcing it on its Maps blog, anyone who has an Android phone or a digital SLR camera can capture areas in 360° and upload them onto the site.
Users must share them on Google Views first, a place where people can share 360° images of scenic locations.
If you have more than one to share, you can connect them together and then publish them on Google Maps. Users can then move between them like they usually would on Street View.
Users can connect Street View images first before uploading them on Google Maps (Image: Google).
The project manager for Google Maps and Photo Sphere, Evan Rapoport, said in the post:
This feature can now enable environmental non-profits to document and promote the beautiful places they strive to protect. It also opens up a new tool for photographers to showcase diversity in a specific location – by times of day, weather conditions or cultural events – in a way that Street View currently doesn’t cover.
It’s hoped that by opening up the service to ordinary users, areas that were missed by Street View will now be covered on the site.
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Ok im lost, but how do you get into photo sphere mode on an android phone?
Your Android phone needs to be running 4.2 Jellybean to have the built in Photosphere function. If you have 4.2 it should be under the camera shooting options (eg. Video, panorama etc) in the camera app.
Hope that helps!
Helps alot Darragh because ive been scratching my head for the last 15mins searching for it. Thanks for that
I don’t have a stock camera. The camera I have is skinned by the manufacturer. Any idea how to get a stock camera with this function?
I’m sending in a 360 degree panorama of my bollocks
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