When we had the opportunity to use Panoramio and Google Earth to geolocate the pictures using the gps information, it wasn’t any problem to place the picture at the actual spot (where it was taken); but nowadays (for the past two years) it’s only possible to place the pictures at Google Maps using the nearest commercial location, which (in most cases) is far from the same spot.
Therefore I would like to know if anyone has been able to place their picture in Google Maps, with the gps-info (EXIF) embedded in the picture -and the location NOT being a commercial or another POI?
With the closure of Panoramio, in Google Maps we can only upload standard photos on Point Of Interest, that can means Business, but also parks, panoramic point, natural features, that are accessible in Google Maps through the “Add a Photo” command. Please read Add, remove, or share photos and videos and What photos should I share on Google Maps?
We can upload 360° photos of every point, even if not associated with a POI. In this last case we will not earn Points. You can read Create or import 360 photos to know more about the Street View Trusted Program
Photos are no longer shared that way @Computermickey photos are only wanted on defined places not at points on the globe.
That said, if you’re into 360 photos you can join the Street View trusted photographer program as SV 360’s can be contributed anywhere legitimately very similar to the way Panoramio worked.
Thank you @ErmesT and @PaulPavlinovich , but then we have another issue, as many of Google’s POI’s (most of them commercial) will be associated with a lot of pictures that aren’t associated with the exact spot, and therefore become more useless as a guide. Let’s take a great national park as an example: There’s most likely only associated a few POI’s with the name of the park and maybe a few viewpoints, and some hotels, and other commercial spots; but neither of them is near the “cliff formation” that you captured and wanted to share the exact point of view from the photos gps-info. Therefore most people have to associate the picture with a hotel within reach, and the guests (that look for the hotel in Google Maps) will believe the “cliff formation picture” to be taken at the same spot as the hotel or very close to it, even though the picture was taken 50 miles away from the hotel. Therefore guests will be disappointed, finding the facts and will have no possible guidance to reach the spot…
Can’t understand why Google doesn’t have an interest in guiding users to the right locations, and making a more relevant geo-location that will benefit their customers to more reliable pictures of their commercial location, and still being able to guide their customers to the nearest viewpoint of the “cliff formation”?
Why only making it possible for 360-pictures, when the possibilities are just as easy with standard-pictures.
Otherwise I guess most photographers will only have an interest in sharing their 360-pictures, which is more or less useless in the commercial marketing and browsing platforms.
When I look for places to visit, then I would like to be guided in a geo-located picture map; where the intensity of pictures taken at the same spot is brighter than spots with fewer taken pictures. In that way we (as curious people and customers) will have an opportunity to use the pictures as an reliable guidance at Google Maps, and discover “hidden” gems in the darker spots of the geo-located picture-overlay of the Google map.
Hope that Google will reconsider their geo-location-policy and make it as agile as Panoramio was.
Anyone with a link to join the 360-picture-contribution?
It is important to not misuse places and to follow the Maps User Contributed Content Policy for more information. Local Guides who contribute photos to places that are not relevant to the photo often encounter unwanted consequences.