Google is betting on crowdsourced Street View imagery to make Google Maps more accurate and up-to-date. Where we have existing Google Street View imagery, we’ll show that as the primary Street View experience with a solid blue line,” explains Stafford Marquardt, Product Manager, Google Maps Street View. “Where people contribute connected photos, they will appear in the Street View layer on Google Maps as dotted blue lines-simply drag Pegman around to find them. Google will need some time (<24 hours) to process the images before making them publicly available. You can select the images you want to upload to Street View and tap Publish. You will find the captured images under the Profile tab at the bottom.

Details will flash on either side of the Capture button as you capture imagery.

For the best experience, capture imagery in landscape mode

Position your phone straight ahead and tap Capture.

Choose the Connected Photos option and tap Info Information to verify your GPS coordinates – an essential step to collect Street View data.

Open the Street View app on your Android phone or tablet and tap the Create button at the bottom.

Additionally, business owners or real estate agents could also capture and publish Street View imagery using special (read expensive) 360-degree cameras.īut now, anyone with an ARCore compatible smartphone can create their own connected Street View photos and help Google to fill in the gaps on Maps much more rapidly. The updated Street View app on Android now allows anybody to collect contribute a series of connected images of a street or path.Įarlier, the onus of collecting images fell primarily on Google’s iconic Street View cars that have collected more than 170 billion images from 10 million miles around the planet. Google Street View – millions of panoramic images on Google Maps that have served as a delightful time-guzzler for us over the years – announced a fundamental change in its data collection process late last year.

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