Hello, Good afternoon, Local guides, I would like to request information when I start making a 360-degree picture with a street view it keeps rotating itself, and at the end, I get a distorted picture. Before it was working well and for more than a year it’s causing an issue. Need your kind suggestion.
Thanks
Hey @Engr-Rashid-Iqbal ,
Thanks for reaching out to us!
Could you please provide us with example links to the affected 360 photos and provide additional details about the statement “it keeps rotating itself, and at the end, I get a distorted picture.”? Could you confirm to us if you are using a 360 camera or you are creating 360 photos with the Create photos with a phone option in the SV app? This will help us to investigate further and assist with your query.
P.S.: I will move your post to our How-tos section, where Local Guides ask questions and express their doubts.
Thank you very much-reaching to me.
I uploaded numerous pictures as a local guide but it’s happening for the last 1.5 years, and since that time I stop making 360 pictures frequently. If you check my previous 360 pictures with street view, those were just perfect.
Here is the lin one of my picture which is due to the autorotation built in the street view:
Looking forward to your kind suggestions.
Hey @Engr-Rashid-Iqbal ,
What device did you use? Are using a 360 camera or you are creating 360 photos with the Create photos with a phone option in the SV app?
I am using Samsung Note 9 and Samsung Galaxy 8+, with all the devices having the same issue.
I am using the create a photo with the phone option.
Hi @Engr-Rashid-Iqbal ,
Thank you for the examples and info provided!
The Street View team checked your images and informed that this is not an issue with the Street View app or with the devices. While using the Create 360 photo option in the Street View app, you are doing multiple shots before they get stitched together in a 360 photo. You can take a look at this video and find some useful tips on how to create a photo sphere and avoid that the final result is messy and distorted. Please keep in mind that this option is purely for hobby and fun. In order to create good quality professional 360 photos, you need to use a specific 360 camera.
With the above said, I am also marking my comment as a solution, since I gave answer to your query. This way the information can be more helpful for others if they have a similar doubt.
I agree with @Bobiisha that you need to practice more making these 360 to avoid so many stitching errors. Also, please note that faces and license plates should be blurred.
On the old 360 pages, I got help from a kind gentleman from Japan. He hand made a great video showing how best to hit the orange dots while using your phone. But now I can access that wealth of info. Sorry.
Cheers
Morten
The main trick to avoid the issue in your photo is to take the photos of nadir and zenith (bottom and top) only at the end, when all the other photos are already taken. A rotation of the camera when taking photos on the top is very common, and will cause the rotation that you are experiencing, so you need to practice, as indicated by @MortenCopenhagen
Also, that kind of photos should NOT be uploaded in Google Maps, due to a not acceptable quality.
Also, i agree with @MortenCopenhagen , the photos you upload should be blurred to protect privacy and personal data.
Please check Blur or remove 360 photos with the Street View app :“Learn more about Google Maps Image Acceptance and Privacy Policies.”
The GSV app has a bug that will make the camera permanently rotate. I have to use a version that is like 3-years old I think? just to be able to create photospheres correctly. I tried on different phones for years and never found a solution other than “try and retry until it doesn’t rotate itself” or using a very old version of the app that doesn’t have the problem. Google never fixed the issue despite numerous reports. No idea if this will change with the new version that introduces the new connected photo feature.
Someone wrote a thread about the problem and tips to avoid it (in Japanese but Google translate does the job):
It’s the exact solution and it really saved me from buying another expensive device for 360 pictures. I love to take a lot of pictures to help people and to introduce the new locations but due to the above-mentioned error I stopped taking 360 picture since last year and I bought Ricoh theta 15 and due to low-quality picture street-view always rejected the pictures.
So Finally I find a solution from your response and took a very nice 3 pictures today.
Bundle of thanks, now I can continue taking pictures… and helping others too.
Bundle of thanks a lot…It’s fixed with the suggested post.
Thanks a lot
Thanks for all your kind comments and suggestion.
The error Is fixed and I make a small video and uploaded it to youtube to handle the error.
It’s because of zero error which starts happening before taking the pictures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8dSV-R0ujo
The link to the video is given.
Bring the camera just below the yellow circle and do not take pictures for a certain time and keep this doing about 3 to 4 times so the accelerometer would be fixed.
Thank you for @L-C and @Engr-Rashid-Iqbal .
I’m glad my article helped you.
Its fixed now and I also made a video to help others.