Also create photo spheres to add your own Street View experiences.

Start with your phones camera or add a oneshot spherical camera (like the Ricoh Theta V or S) for easy 360 photography.

Then, you can publish to Google Maps to share your photo spheres with the world.

Content galleries: Browse or be notified of Googles newest special collections Explore all of Street View (including contributions from others) Review your public profile of published photo spheres Manage your private photo spheres Creating and sharing photo spheres: Use your phones camera (no camera accessories required) Connect to a spherical camera to capture in one tap Share to Google Maps as immersive photo spheres Share privately as flat photos Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

I had just acquired this app, so I dont know whether it caused the following problems, or if they were already present.

I tried to trace a route from my house to a point a couple of miles away, using the street-level view.

The only way to proceed is to switch to the map view and advance the little man, whereupon he skips over the segment of road that cant be covered at street-level.

Upon returning to street-level, you may find yourself facing down the street in the wrong direction.

Further confusing the matter is that in the map view the line is continuous, not broken, giving one no warning of what to expect.

If the reason for the breaks is that people have requested to not have their houses in the street-level view, then a database for taking that into account in the map view exists.

Most, though, oddly, not all of them, have the lines crossing not at right angles, but in this weird zigzag that is treacherous to attempt to navigate.

Occasionally, one can sometimes hop over it, but other times you wind up on the cross street or several blocks behind where you were.

When I upload a bunch of photos at one time, I sometimes get the error No Wifi when I am in my office and have great Wifi.

However, having these photos now connect i.e.

Camera spot 1 to 2 to 3 and so on and editing the direction that is shown as the thumbnail prior to uploading so you are giving the best view direction of the 360 is fantastic.

Then taking it a step further and editing the listing to match you GPS pin point location in Google Map and adding the parking location.

Now this bring the service to the public to a whole new level.

Google Earth Application For Mac