Publish photos

1. Open the publisher at https://pano.cool/tools/street-view-publisher and click Connect Google account. Photos are published under your own Google account.
2. On the New photos tab, step 1 Add 360° photos: drop the photos, or click choose files. They must be equirectangular JPEGs with a 2:1 ratio, such as 6000 × 3000; Google asks for at least 3840 × 1920. Photos close to 2:1 are stretched to fit.
3. Step 2 Set location and heading: pick each photo in the strip. Drag the red marker, search the map, or type Latitude and Longitude (pasting “latitude, longitude” into either field fills both). Drag the blue handle, or type Heading, to set which way it faces. Optionally pick a Floor level.
4. Step 3 Review and publish: optionally choose a Google Maps place for the whole batch.
5. Click Publish N photos at the bottom, check the summary, and confirm.

1. Add two or more photos and give each one a location.
2. In step 2, select a photo, open Connected photos (Choose photos to connect…), and tick the photos a visitor can walk to from it. The list can be searched by photo number or name.
3. Connections go both ways: connecting photo 1 to photo 2 also connects photo 2 to photo 1.
4. Publish. The arrows show on Street View once Google approves them, usually after a few days.

Photos that are already published can be connected in Edit published photo (see below).

AI Auto Connect works out where each photo was taken and which photos a visitor can walk between, then lets you put them on the map in one go instead of one photo at a time.

1. Sign in to PanoCool, connect your Google account and add at least two 360° photos.
2. In step 2 Set location and heading, click AI Auto Connect. The dialog explains how it works and what it costs: one AI edit per photo. If you don’t have enough AI edits, Start opens the plans and packs; once your AI edits arrive, start again.
3. Click Start. It takes a few minutes for most places. You can close the dialog and keep working; keep the tab open until it’s done.
4. Place your photos on the map opens on a satellite map. Drag the photos onto the building, pull a corner to resize them and the round handle to turn them until they match the building. You can also search the building’s address, use the Size and Turn sliders, or select the photos on the map and use the arrow keys, + and −, and [ and ].
5. Click Apply. Every placed photo gets its location, heading and connections. Undo in the notice puts them back. Check each photo’s direction in step 2 before publishing.

Good to know:

• It works best indoors, with photos taken a few steps apart and each spot in sight of the last.
• Photos on different floor levels are connected floor by floor, and each floor is placed on its own.
• Photos that are already on Google Maps stay as they are.
• A photo AI can’t place keeps its location; give it one by hand.
• Adjust on map in step 2 opens the map again to move, resize or turn the photos you placed.

A virtual tour that already has Street View Arrows (connected by hand or with AI Auto Connect) can go to Google Street View without connecting the photos again.

1. In the editor, open Share and click Publish to Google Street View.
2. The dialog says how many photos and connections go to the publisher. Click Open Street View Publisher: it opens in a new tab. Your tour isn’t changed.
3. Sign in and connect your Google account if you haven’t. The tour’s 360° photos then come in by themselves, named after their scenes, with their floor levels and connections. Videos, flat photos and hidden scenes stay behind.
4. The map opens with the photos laid out as in the tour, on its floor plan drawing when it has one. Drag, resize and turn them to fit the building, then click Apply. A tour placed with GPS starts where its photos already are.
5. Publish as usual.

A floor plan you drew or uploaded yourself has no real-world size, so its size on the map is a first guess: resize it until the photos match the building.