So I’ve read all the guides on how to publish a 360 pano and believe I’ve followed them all yet every time I try, after it shows that it is in the process of publishing, it just goes back to ‘ready to publish’. The location and map listing are set, it’s got a 2x1 ratio and it’s 49 megs. I’ve attached a smaller version to see if anyone can help out with what the problem might be. It’s shot by drone and stitched in PtGui. I’m thinking it might be some of the exif data as I had to add a few items to allow it to work on Facebook.
TIA
For kicks and grins.
Grab a Theta test file off the internet somewhere, paste your content into the theta file and save it, then upload and see if it plays… if that works, you need to sort out your exif data 
don’t remember what the max file size is, but I would probably scale it down a bit to keep it smaller as well,
Bo
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@BoLorentzen wrote:
For kicks and grins.
Grab a Theta test file off the internet somewhere, paste your content into the theta file and save it, then upload and see if it plays… if that works, you need to sort out your exif data 
don’t remember what the max file size is, but I would probably scale it down a bit to keep it smaller as well,
Bo
I gave switching out the exif data a try, and that failed, so I tried the file at a smaller 30 meg size and, viola, it worked. I then tested a different file, without switching the exif, and that worked also. The moral of the story… The published file size limit of 75 megs is a lie. 
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LOL well not entirely sure what the 75meg defines, but that may not be the compressed file size. 
As in a 50meg JPG would expand to a significantly larger file.
PS I suspect its being resized to some standard cube-face sizes when being served to viewers anyway. not sure what the max cube-face is from which we could calculate maximum meaningful pixel size, but I generally use 8k files (long)
Bo
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Hey @BoLorentzen and @Flighttime ,
Thank you guys for sharing some solutions here on Connect. This topic will definitely come in handy for future references.
Best regards,
Georges
For facebook I somewhere in the www read: You must scale the jpg to 10000 to 5000 pixels (e.g. with GIMP). And then in File Properties you must fill in the Camera Producer “THETA” and the camera model “RICOH THETA S” (of course without the "-characters). For facebook that works for me. With Google Fotos it sometimes worked and the foto was taken as a 360° pano. I am just trying that with Google Street View.
Walter
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Hey @Walter333 ,
Welcome to Connect.
Thanks for the info. Please let us know how it goes.
Georges
@BoLorentzen wrote:
LOL well not entirely sure what the 75meg defines, but that may not be the compressed file size. 
As in a 50meg JPG would expand to a significantly larger file.
PS I suspect its being resized to some standard cube-face sizes when being served to viewers anyway. not sure what the max cube-face is from which we could calculate maximum meaningful pixel size, but I generally use 8k files (long)
Bo
Regarding file size, I started at 18,000 wide and reduced to 12,000 to get it to work. The 75 meg restriction came from https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7012050?hl=en&ref_topic=6275604.
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