Here’s one from Classic Cycle on Bainbridge Island (just a ferry ride away from Seattle) that has received 15,000-plus views. I normally do these type of photos for a fee, but I was just getting used to the new Samsung Gear 360 camera that I purchased and did a bunch in those first weeks pro bono to help small shop owners. Here’s one I did (out of several) of a little coffee shop, Tierra Mia Coffee, in Montebello, California, that has landed them over 20,000 views. Planet modern city.360-degree panorama of the round of the Shanghai skyline Getty

Here’s the link to the iPhone version of Streetview. You likely already have the ability to take a 360 photo (sometimes called Photo Spheres) with your smartphone using the Google Streetview App (free to download). So, you want to take a 360 photo for your business listing on Google, but you do not want to spend a few hundred on a pro photographer or on a specialized 360 camera (although they are not very expensive). How To Get Started Taking 360 Photos With Your Smartphone (iPhone or Android) The good news you do not need that specialized, expensive 360 degree camera on top of the colorful Google Streetview car (in above photo). I only mention this because it gives me a glimpse into how popular these interactive photos are, for consumers, and for fellow business owners looking at how successful other profiles are that contain this type of photo. The GPS coordinates are saved with the JPEG so Maps knows where it really belongs, but doesn't put it there.I have taken my fair share of 360 photos for business owners and I see the data on Google Maps because I am a “Trusted Professional” in the Google Streetview For-Hire program. Even if I “share” the photo with the Maps app, it requires me to select a place before posting, and the sphere appears on the place itself, and not where it was actually taken. I also tried to do it through the regular Google Maps app on Android but it does the same as on PC. A bit misleading.īefore I could at least do it with the Street View app on Android, but that is going away and it doesn't seem to work for me on Pixel 6 anymore. If I upload them to the nearest place, for example, a hotel, the blue dot doesn't appear where the GPS coordinates in the EXIF data of the JPEG tell it, instead right on top of the place I added the photo to.

However, I don't know how to upload them. I want to upload them to Google Maps as spheres, the blue dots that appear on street view. I have a couple of 360 panoramas I made with a drone and edited in Photoshop, they are JPEGs.

Google earth 360 panorama