How to export panos to Google Maps?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

I have a relatively standard 180°x360° panorama of a street crossing
that I wanted to put on Google Maps. I had investigated this some
time in the past and discovered that I needed various metadata if the
vertical angle wasn't 180°, and put it in the "too hard" basket. But
this pano is complete. Only I can't find how to upload it. The only
instructions still on the web require a MOBILE PHONE! Nothing about
uploading from a computer.

Can anybody help?

Greg
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[Carlo CC]

I believe you have to have some Google certified equipment.

You cannot simply upload a panorama you made.

[Tobias]

Hello,

if the problem is about missing metadata, I used this exiftool command to add metadata to an 1:2, 180°x360° equirectangular image and it works with Google photos. I'm not sure if it works with Google Maps, too. You just need to change the 'NAME.jpg' at the end of the command to your filename.

exiftool -ProjectionType="equirectangular" -UsePanoramaViewer="True" -"PoseHeadingDegrees<$exif:GPSImgDirection" -"CroppedAreaImageWidthPixels<$ImageWidth" -"CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels<$ImageHeight" -"FullPanoWidthPixels<$ImageWidth" -"FullPanoHeightPixels<$ImageHeight" -CroppedAreaLeftPixels="0" -CroppedAreaTopPixels="0" NAME.jpg

The result: https://photos.app.goo.gl/NDAcuce3j1yo3TWu7

I've documented it here:

https://dablogter.blogspot.com/2020/01/panorama-of-old-vase-in-vr.html

For uploading it to maps it looks like you need the Google Street View App:

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7012050?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid#zippy=%2Cpopular-equipment-to-use-with-a-dslr-system

Please report back if it works.

Regards,

Tobias

[Carlo]

Can anyone see this one?

https://goo.gl/maps/xJxgPLeSrAdgLmQHA

I just published it with iPhone and the Street View app.

[Bruno Postle]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2022, 12:03 Carlo, <koga...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can anyone see this one?

https://goo.gl/maps/xJxgPLeSrAdgLmQHA

I just published it with iPhone and the Street View app.

Works for me, launches in the Google maps app on Android - Bruno

[Carlo]

OK, so Greg,

my panorama was made with a Nikon camera as a test. You can see I have no zenith photographed.

Stitched with Hugin and "reworked" with Gimp. There are no special metadata in this file.

I uploaded this image 6000×3000 to my photos.google folder.

Then with my iPhone and the Street View app I put it online. In the app you can set the position on the map and heading.

However, in Google Streetview I usually see a small blue dot where someone took a picture. I can not see mine on the map.

Carlo

[Bruno Postle]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2022, 13:33 Carlo, wrote:

Stitched with Hugin and "reworked" with Gimp. There are no special metadata in this file.

I uploaded this image 6000×3000 to my photos.google folder.

Note that Hugin adds the Google panorama metadata automatically whenever you stitch a project.

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[Luís Henrique Camargo Quiroz]

    Hi Carlo!

    Yes, I zoomed out in the map view (after I closed the panorama) to see where that place was, and could not go back to the pano, the blue dot is yet missing...

    Don't worry at all! Is this panorama still very fresh in Google Maps, am I right? I bet yes!  The blue circle indicator will appear some days after you uploaded the panorama. Even now, when you hover the mouse over the right spot, the panorama will appear, maybe you have already seen this behavior.

   "happy panoraming",

   Luís Henrique

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[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday, 4 January 2022 at 4:03:54 -0800, Carlo wrote:
> Can anyone see this one?
> https://goo.gl/maps/xJxgPLeSrAdgLmQHA

Yes, looks fine; not too far from where I used to live.

> I just published it with iPhone and the Street View app.

And that's my problem. WHY does Google insist on a mobile phone to
upload panoramas? I can't get my head around it. My original
question was

>> Groogle schrieb am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2022 um 00:10:48 UTC+1:
>>
>>> Only I can't find how to upload it. The only instructions still on
>>> the web require a MOBILE PHONE! Nothing about uploading from a
>>> computer.
>>>
>>> Can anybody help?

I'm sure that it was once possible. And I'm sure that Google don't
use mobile phones to store their own images. Why are they doing this?

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[David W. Jones]

On January 4, 2022 11:35:17 AM HST, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <groo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 4 January 2022 at 4:03:54 -0800, Carlo wrote:
> > Can anyone see this one?
> > https://goo.gl/maps/xJxgPLeSrAdgLmQHA
>
> Yes, looks fine; not too far from where I used to live.
>
> > I just published it with iPhone and the Street View app.
>
> And that's my problem. WHY does Google insist on a mobile phone to
> upload panoramas? I can't get my head around it. My original
> question was
>
> >> Groogle schrieb am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2022 um 00:10:48 UTC+1:
> >>
> >>> Only I can't find how to upload it. The only instructions still on
> >>> the web require a MOBILE PHONE! Nothing about uploading from a
> >>> computer.
> >>>
> >>> Can anybody help?
>
> I'm sure that it was once possible. And I'm sure that Google don't
> use mobile phones to store their own images. Why are they doing this?
>
> Greg

Hmm, cuz when you use a mobile phone, Google can track and mine more data about you? Spyware is Google's entire business model.


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