In this tutorial I'll show you how to prepare non-android created 360˚ panoramas for uploading to Google Maps Views via Mac OSX. Update 1/2/2016: Thanks to some insightful folk on the GitHub forum there is a fix you can apply that restores the integration between pyExifToolGui and ExifTool on Mac's running Yosemite or El Capitan. I've created a small Fix the Link to ExifTool tutorial that illustrates the steps required to make those changes. Update: Upgrading to El Capitan creates an issue whereby pyExifToolGui cannot integrate with ExifTool. The only option for those who upgrade is using terminal commands to write the metadata. I've created a new tutorial, to take you step by step through using the Terminal to add MetaData.
I'm also working on a new tutorial showing how to add your 360˚ panoramas to Google Maps. Thanks to Milo Timbol for his excellent blog on.
It was the solution I had been searching for. This is a follow on to Milo's blog, where he takes you through the Windows version.
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However I needed a Mac workflow and came up with the method that is described in this blog. The blog provides an update for Milo's 'Method 2: The faster but more complicated way' and is broken down into a simple a step-by-step workflow for Mac OSX users. First off, I would highly recommend you read. A little bit of setup and then updating is fast and easy. This method adds metadata to the Equirectangular image manually.
Two pieces of software must be available on the system to enable the update. The first is the excellent open source command line tool ExifTool by Phil Harvey and the second, the indispensable pyExifToolGui, written by Harvey Van Der Wolf. Install Exif Tool 1. Download the (2.4mb) or visit the website.
Install pyExifToolGUI pyExifToolGui, written by Harvey Van Der Wolf, is a graphical frontend for ExifTool that reads and writes all kind of metadata tags from/to image files. A strong point of this software is the ability to write the data, copied or not from a source image (reference image), to multiple images at once. It also supports Googles PhotoSphere options for panoramic images. Note: If you download and use this application please donate to Harvey via his website to help him develop this really helpful GUI. Download the (19.7mb) or visit the website 2.
Tap on the green pyExifToolGUI-0.5.dmg button. All thats left is to add your Equirectangular image to your photos in Google+ updated 14-12-15 to reflect the demise of Google Map Views UPDATE: Adding a Photosphere to Google Maps In early June 2015 Google shuttered Google Map Views and inadvertently plunged us into quite a different world of publishing photospheres. There were a number of areas in which methods of publishing and accessing photospheres were lost or severely changed. The ability to build Constellations has disappeared, and it's return date is unknown. Locating photosphere based solely on their longitude and latitude is no longer possible. Photosphere now have to be attached to a map marker. Descriptions from photospheres pre shuttering cannot be seen and new ones cannot be created.
Embedding photospheres is no longer possible Tony.