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Introduction
This post aims to showcase the best 360 spheres contributed to Maps by Connect Local Guides and when it comes to the “best”, we mean those having the most views. For convenience, we call these star 360 spheres.
The cover image:
One example star 360 sphere is that shown as the cover image of this post. It was taken by @Trail_blazer (DK), a Level 10 Local Guide from Faridabad, in India. It as taken at the small village of Sihri, located in Punahana Tehsil of Nuh district in the Haryana state, India. In his post here, DK describes his star as follows: “It’s a small village around a hillock. I used to travel to this place in winters and take shots of sunset and sunrise. It also offers great picturesque in rain season too. There is not much to hang around other then just lush greenery and pure countryside experience.”
Below I have also embedded a version of DK’s 360 sphere so you can test navigating the Siri image in all directions and you will see how such photos make you feel immersed in the scene. To do this, on a smartphone simply swipe or drag your finger across the screen to look around the image or if you’re using a desktop, click your mouse on the photo and drag in any direction to explore the view.
*Caption: Embedded version of @Trail_blazer's Star 360 Sphere of Sihri uploaded onto Google Maps on 2018-10-10 and showing star views of 25,875 as at 2024-09-28*To learn more about creating and publishing photo spheres to Google Maps, see this Google Maps Help article.
Join in, Share and Learn
If you have contributed 360 spheres on Maps, then you can join in and share and learn. It’s simple to do, just hit this link to register or add a comment in this post indicating your interest to join in and someone will jump in to help you.
By sharing our contributions and achievements we can learn a lot about how to improve and achieve even better outcomes in terms of the impact that our Maps contributions have on our communities. We have been doing this successfully with photos for the past few years and more recently we started doing this with video. Now we can do the same with 360 Spheres. Together we can!
If you’re new here then you may not be aware that this post forms part of a series of leaderboard posts each covering different aspects of the contributions of Local Guides. To see an index to these leaderboard posts and all posts associated with them, simply hit this link.
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