Feb 24, 2023

Publish photo spheres through Google maps app? iOS

In the guide here they write you can post 360° photo spheres through Google maps app now, but when I add photo spheres from Google maps app to some place, it’s added like normal flat photo. When I post some photo through street view app (ending soon and often crash) it’s posted like 360° photo spheres and added to Google maps and can be viewed normally. So where is the problem? How I can post 360° photo spheres from Google maps? iPhone, Insta360 X3.

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Imagery (Street View, satellite, photos),iOS

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treebles

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Feb 26, 2023

Hi Michal,

i will pass the information to Google and see what they have to say about your problems.

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treebles

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Feb 25, 2023

Hi Michal,

It might be that the image that you upload does not have the necessary metadata information to be interpreted as a photo sphere or the metadata is deleted at some point during your workflow to publish it to Google Maps.

The upload process in the Street View app includes a step where the photo sphere metadata is created automatically if it is not embedded in the image, that step does not seem to exist in the upload process on Maps.

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Feb 25, 2023

Hi Michal,

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treebles

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Feb 26, 2023

Hi Michal,

Regarding your comment

But like I said, when I post the same picture to Facebook, it share like 360° photo.

That may not be related, I do not know if Facebook requires photo spheres to publish 360 images, they may require only spherical panoramas.

Spherical panoramas are images created by stitching individual frames using the equirectangular projection and must have a 2:1 aspect ratio.

Photo spheres, is the name given by Google to spherical panoramas that contain also the necessary photo sphere XMP metadata specification developed by Google and used by Google's panorama viewer to display the image.

All photo spheres are also spherical panoramas, but not all spherical panoramas are photo spheres.

Facebook may not require Google's photo sphere XMP metadata to display the image as long it is a spherical panorama.

Regarding the stripping of metadata, I was not referring to other apps, rather I was asking you if there might be a setting in the iPhone from where you can control when to strip metadata from images when sharing them and it might be enable when sharing through the Google Maps app but not when sharing through the Safari browser.

Michal Tršo

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Feb 26, 2023

There is no control in iOS about allow or disallow stripping this data. It’s about developers of the apps. And if you said the images I provide have these data included, it must be Google maps who strips this data from the image. Or give me photo with correct data here and I will try to upload it through Google maps app. But, because it works through Safari browser, I think the problem is Google maps app.

treebles

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Feb 26, 2023

Hi Michal,

i will pass the information to Google and see what they have to say about your problems.

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Michal Tršo

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Feb 26, 2023

Thank you very much! And how I will get some feedback😉. They can use the files I added here to test it. I will provide inside the Google drive original unedited files as well.