Google has updated its Google maps service with a new feature that allows users to build their own street view map of a location, by using Android photo sphere or a DSLR.
As per Google, users can now take the help of a new features in views community to connect their photo spheres to create a 360 degree virtual tour of a place and share them on Google Maps. Much like the street view, users can embed the interactivate viewer on their website or create apps with is using the Google maps API.
Google has also detailed the process for building personalized street maps. Start by creating a photo sphere using an Android smartphone or a DSLR, and sharing it on views; next users need to select the photo sphere from their views as constellations. Once the photo sphere are connected and published, usres can navigate between them on google maps, just like one can do in street view.
Google maps and photo sphere, product manager Evan Rapoport said on the Google Maps blog post , "We are excited to see the different types of street view experience
that everyone will contribute. For example this feature can now enable now environmental non-profits to document and promote the beautiful places they strive to protect. It also opens up a new tool for photographers to showcase diversity in specific location --by times of day , weather conditions or cultural events -- in a way that street view currently doesn't cover."
Earlier google maps was updated with new features and tools based on feed back from its users, namely : directions for multiple destinations ; displaying new relevants itinerary data within maps itself , and displaying upcoming events data for venues.
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