I am currently doing a 360 Virtual Tour of a fitness club. It is over two floors and needs to have an inside map so that I can properly map each floor and have the floor navigation icons shown.
How do I prepare a floorplan that is acceptable to submit for Google Maps?
Has anyone used an inside floorplan for a large single story business and used sections rather than floors for navigation?
How many characters can you use for each navigation icon - so far I have seen 2 i.e. “2a”?
Thanks,
Nigel
I’m unsure what you mean by indoor map. Google is offering these indoor maps to owners and managers of huge malls and airports.
The other type is when virtual tours span 2 or more floors. This is possible to set up in some of the third party services designed to link 360 images together into a virtual tour.
I haven’t seen virtual tours posted inside Google indoor maps, but it would be interesting.
It might be worth checking if the place you have in mind qualify to get an indoor map as an initial step.
Maybe some of the experienced 360 photographers have tested it. Sorry I could not help your any better.
Cheers
Morten
You may learn more here:
https://support.google.com/maps/thread/27139570/360-images-indoor-mapping?hl=en
I more and more doubt this is possible. And what would you gain? Having the individual shop icons show as seen on Google’s own streetview images will not be possible unless you program it manually.
Cheers
Morten
Thanks for reminding me that there are two kinds of indoor maps. As it happens I need both, but I clearly wasn’t helping myself by mixing them together. My main tour software is 3DVista. At the moment I would need to purchase a second software package for the floors navigation - not cheap but necessary for this one feature 
. I will try checking whether floors navigation is going to be added to 3DVista in the very near future to avoid spending out unnecessarily.
I still need to understand how to prepare for the second type to map out a shopping centre that in under a roof and would be helpful for customers to understand the layout. So if anyone has used this process to submit their own indoor maps I would be grateful for any help. I suspect I will need to repost with a correctly worded question.
Feel free to rephrase the title of this thread.
But I would like to remind you that support for Google Streetview is no longer available here on Connect.
Learn more in this update by Googler DeniGu: Questions about Street View?
I would expect you could get help in one of the many related Facebook groups for 360 photography.
Also, other 3-party solutions have multiple floors as a feature.
Regards
Morten
