Where can I post/upload my full resolution panos? (they are usually <180°)

[Arnstein Bjone]

Google suggests 15-25 various sites, but it seems like it is all about 360°, at least judging from their site name and brief descriptions.

The last time I published an (equirectangular) pano was a decade ago. Used Zoomify at that time.

I still have a couple of websites myself but haven't touched them for a decade... I don't even find a simple way to download my own webpages and edit them (which I need to in order to use the files PTGui make).

I'm retiring and have little interest in those sites anymore.

[mar...@stolle.name]

Who is the audience for your photos?  For private sharing, Google Photos recognizes the Photosphere metadata that PTGui can embed in equirectangular images and will present the images with an interactive viewer.  This works for partial panos as well.

[Arnstein Bjone]

Google Photos: " The maximum upload size limit for photo is 100 Megapixels and 75 MB". This is far away from what I want.

I want to share/provide links for everyone.

[Michael Learmonth]

You can post large panoramas here: http://gigapan.com/gigapans

I have posted a few, for example: http://gigapan.com/gigapans/81929

[Arnstein Bjone]

For uploading to Gigapan it seems that I need Gigapan hardware..? I have REALLY looked all over that site, but can't find the software that is only for upload e.g. a JPG or  a TIFf.

[Erik Krause]

Am 02.06.2021 um 18:28 schrieb Arnstein Bjone:

> For uploading to Gigapan it seems that I need Gigapan hardware..? I have
> REALLY looked all over that site, but can't find the software that is only
> for upload e.g. a JPG or a TIFf.

No, you need to be a member. From http://gigapan.com/cms/create-upload
"Join GigaPan for free as a Plus member to upload your images and share
them."

--
Erik Krause
http://www.erik-krause.de

[Michael Learmonth]

The software can be found here:

https://www.gigapan.com/cms/shop/software/gigapan-uploader

It includes both a trial version of their stitcher and I believe a permanent version of their uploader.  Upload software will upload JPG, RAW, TIFF, KRO, PSB, PSD formats and once uploaded, the site displays the gigapans with a "zoomify" type interface.

[Michael Learmonth]

I am not sure whether you need to register in order to upload (I expect you do) and also whether you need to own a GigaPan head in order to register (I suspect you don't). I do have a GigaPan Epic Pro and I believe that I registered more than 10 years ago based on my Niagara Falls gigapan taken in 2011: http://gigapan.com/gigapans/81929/

By the way, when viewing those gigapans you can toggle to full screen mode. The Niagara Falls gigapan that I uploaded was only 0.31 GigaPixels made from 45 shots using a 60 mm lens. My bigger version (that I have never uploaded) was generated from 454 photos with a 200 mm lens and is more than 3 Gigapixels. Currently I am working on setting up my GigaPan to do stereo gigapans. Here is one of my non-giga 360X180 stereo panoramas: http://www.3dphoto.net/forum/index.php/topic,12323.0.html

Mike

[MD]

What export settings are you using to upload large gigapixel images? (beyond the 65.000 pixel JPG limit)

I have tried PSB with PackBits compression once layered, once flattened. Then TIFF with LZW compression and 'No alpha channel'.

But every time it fails with a different error, at 98% the first two times (failed to complete, even though it finished every step), and then halfway when verifying the tiff.

After each fail the Uploader refused to sign in to my account for a while. Then the actual site fails to load in the browser..

Something very wrong over there.

Any alternatives? Seems they're on their last legs, or maybe it's just me.

There's 360cities, but i believe they only accept full 360 spherical - like most of them.

Op woensdag 2 juni 2021 om 22:53:38 UTC+2 schreef michael.a...@gmail.com:

[Thomas Naiser]

I am uploading my "full resolution panoramas" with several gigapixels to Amazon Web Services S3.
The size limit is currently the 300000 pixel limit of the PSB format...

My Workflow is as follows:
Raw Images -> PTGUI -> Gigapixel Panorama in PSB Format ->krpano: Make Pano Multires -> 1000s of image tiles -> Amazon Web Services S3


krpano greatly reduces the image size from say 20GB to 1 or 2 GB, with some loss of image quality.

Here is a short description of my workflow:

https://sites.google.com/site/thomasnaiser/home/GigapixelPanorama

At Amazon Web Services you will need a bucket with public read access (important: readonly!)

I don't exactly remember how I set up the AWS3 bucket ,  but its probably the same as here:
https://ivrpa.org/news/hosting-360-vr-panoramas-on-amazon-web-services-s3/

Upload the complete folder created by krpano to this bucket.

You can easily embed panoramas in your website just by adding a link to the index.html (which is included in the folder created by krpano).

[PTGui Support]

But mind AWS bandwidth costs ($0.09 per GB transferred), this can add up
if you have lots of visitors.

An alternative is to use Backblaze and Cloudflare. When setup correctly
you would pay for storage only:

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217666928-Creating-a-Vanity-URL-with-B2

Kind regards,

Joost Nieuwenhuijse
www.ptgui.com

> while. Then the /actual site/ fails to load in the browser..

>
> Something very wrong over there.
>

> Google Photos: " The *maximum* upload *size
> limit for photo* is 100 Megapixels and 75 MB".

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