How to view 360 photos by Street View car or Local guides

Caption: Durban City Hall  in GIF

Hello local guides, to see actual photos used for the animation see the link here Durban City Hall photos . Adding 360 photos require some time and skills to upload align the photos and some times connect them to form virtual tour.

Before you upload this photos either recorded in video mode for those with street view ready cameras or as still image, we all have to know if there are 360 photos uploaded on the same location either by local guides or Street View team.

Before, when I wanted to check if the place has existing 360 photos or not I used to drag the Street View icon from the bottom right of the screen on PC and hold it before dropping it to any location, waiting for existing 360 photos to appear then I drop or release it to its original position. Now I discovered that you can right click on the street view icon itself to reveal the existing 360 photos or go to the to left, the three dots on your left hand side, right click on it, go to the Street View icon and right click on it, just by doing that this will appear showing all the spots which have existing 360 photos, this will help you decide which area needs 360, and which one does not.

See the screen short showing areas that have existing 360 photos:

Here I added few 360 photos which are shown there using the Ricoh Theta V camera from the Google Street view team during Connect Live 2018. See this link for the 360 photos connected Durban City Hall this photos are connected meaning that you can click to move to the next one, just hover around the photo to find the arrows. This is how I managed to find the 360 photos, to deactivate the 360 photos from appearing, just right click the Street View icon again.

I hope this will be useful to those who did not know how to find existing 360 photos. Thank you.

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Thank you @Raphael-Mahumane for this useful information.

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Hi @Raphael-Mahumane , thanks for sharing this useful post about 360 photos :slight_smile: I am sure that it will be useful for Local Guides here. Keep posting and contributing.

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Thank you a lot @Ivi_Ge for your encouragement, will keep doing the best!

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