Street View Images Update

Hey everyone,

Could we not somehow request street view camera’s for certain Local Google Guides so that some of the street view roads can be updated? I really don’t want to pay someone to come and do it. Just thought it would be nice to just be able to drive around my area like normally and then at the end of my trip upload all the images that had been taken.

We have roads that haven’t been updated here for 3 years and the only people that can take street view images charge a mad price for such. Would be good exposure for businesses plus your local area will be updated almost daily? I’ve looked at camera equipment and its just mad expensive.

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Hi @Bradle_s

It would be great to have the Street View team all around the world to update the map.

In any case, waiting for them, we can do it by ourselves, with some cheaper device and our phone.

There are cameras, like the ones that you can find here (Set up and connect 360 cameras ) that can be connected to the Street View App on our mobile phone.

With these cameras, we can easily capture 360 images and create the blue lines, following the simple indications that you can find in Capture and publish in Video mode with the Street View app

This is a great opportunity that we have to improve Google Maps by ourselves

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Hi @Bradle_s ,

Thanks for reaching out to us.

I see that @ermest has already kindly shared with you how to improve Google Maps. You can follow the tips he provided with you.

In addition to that, I marked his reply as a solution to your question, so other Local Guides can refer to it. The purpose of this feature is to help Local Guides find answers when searching on the Connect. Please take a look at: How do I mark comments as solutions? article.

P.S.: Please note that, your post was moved to the How-tos board, as this would be helpful to fellow Local Guides searching for similar questions.

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That does help thank you will look into it and get onto it! thank you

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