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Introducing “Views” - A new way to contribute your 360° photo spheres to Google Maps
July 30, 2013
Wherever life’s adventures may take us, our photos help us remember and share the places we care about. When photos are added to a map, whether they’re from your camera or through Street View, they record unique experiences that collectively create the story of a place and what it looked like at a particular moment in time.
Today, we are launching a new community site called
Views
that makes it easy for people to publicly share their photos of places by contributing
photo spheres
to Google Maps (photo spheres are 360º panoramas that can be easily be created with your Android phone).
Below is a screenshot of the
new Google Maps
for desktop, showing a photo sphere that I shared one morning in Hawaii while my wife and I walked along the beach near our old neighborhood. The thumbnails at the bottom show our comprehensive photo coverage, with each image accurately placed on the map.
A photo sphere in the new Google Maps. Can you feel the sand between your toes?
Photo spheres can be created with the camera in Android 4.2 or higher, including most Nexus devices and the
new Nexus 7
tablet.
This short video
will show you how to get started. You can also share panoramas you’ve created with your DSLR camera (learn more on our
help center
).
To upload 360º photo spheres, just sign into the Views site with your Google+ profile and click the blue camera button on the top right of the page. This will enable you to import your existing photo spheres from your Google+ photos. You can also upload 360º photo spheres to Views from the Gallery in Android by tapping “Share” and then selecting Google Maps.
Below you can see
my Views page
, which is filled with photo spheres and descriptions about my experiences in the places I’ve visited. I created these during my travels, including
day trips
and
hikes
around the San Francisco bay area, as well as far away adventures to
Hawaii
,
Sydney
,
Beijing
, and
Paris
. Sometimes I also share photo spheres around the
Google campus
in Mountain View. You can explore them all on
this map
.
Screenshot of
my Views page
Since Views also incorporates the
Street View Gallery
, you can check out incredible panoramas of our most popular Street View collections, from the
Grand Canyon
to the
Swiss Alps
. Just click on “Explore” at the top of the Views site to browse a map of these special collections right alongside community-contributed photo spheres.
So, when you’re on your next adventure, don’t forget your camera and your Android phone to create and share some photo spheres of places that inspire you... we can’t wait to see them!
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Posted by
Evan Rapoport
, Product Manager, Google Maps & Photo Sphere
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