I’ve added quite a lot of panorama photospheres on Streetview. It seems some were pretty popular. I’ve created them both using the Streetview app directly and by stitching photospheres from a drone. None of it was for commercial purposes. I feel I’ve added something of value to Google’s product and it seems strange they would take away the ability to do this.
Is there still a way to add Streetview photospheres by specifying a location on a map? There seem to be two suggested ways, neither of which work for the following reasons.
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Street View Studio. This is recommended by the old Streetview app. It seems to be focussed on video. I can’t find a way to upload a static photosphere panorama.
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Contributing directly to Maps. I’m not sure if this adds to Streetview directly, but even if so, it’s only possible to add to specified locations, such as a shop or museum you can find in Google Maps. It doesn’t seem possible to add a 360 photosphere taken on, for example, a bare bit of moorland somewhere in the countryside. It was important in the Streetview app to add by specifying a location on a map, and this isn’t possible using the Maps interface, as far as I can tell. I could add a photo, for example, to the 1359 existing photos linked to the “Lake District National Park”, but that’s an area of 912 square miles. Where, exactly, should Pegman look, to find my photo? Even if it does get added to Streetview it’s unlikely to be in the right location.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.