Best Panoramic Photo Apps: iPad/iPhone Apps AppGuide. Overview Some scenes just cry out for a panoramic photo. Whether you're looking at a majestic mountain vista or hopping night club, you just might need more than what can fit into a single frame to capture the moment. Luckily, there are some amazing apps for creating panoramas on your iPhone. Essential Apps Free Photosynth by Microsoft Corporation This is the essential panorama shooting app. It is so simple to use -- simply point your camera and start panning slowly. You are not just limited to left and right -- you can pan up and down as well to capture the entire scene.
Notable Apps $1.99 DMD Panorama by Dermandar Another very worthy free app that I can’t quite delete from my iPhone is Dermandar. Decent Apps $1.99 Sfera by Yudo Inc. Other Apps. Where Street View Fears to Tread. There are still quite a lot of gaps in Street View's coverage around the world. Luckily a number of other providers have created their own Google Maps based Street View applications to try and plug these gaps. China - with City8 In China City8 have created extensive interactive 360 degree panoramas in 45 of the country's biggest cities. MapJack As well as providing Street View type imagery in the USA, Canada, Singapore and Sweden Mapjack has also ventured where Google Street View has so far feared to tread. Norc Norc has great coverage in central and eastern Europe, including in Poland and Austria, where Google's Street View cars have yet to drive. 3D Street Level Imagery Solutions.
Create Your Own Street View Plus. Earthmineearthmine is a company that I've been keeping an eye on for a while. They are a street-level 3D mapping company that collect and produce Street View type panoramic images. However, whereas Street View panoramas are really just still images, earthmine panoramas are far more sophisticated and contain 3D data and GIS. This means that the images can contain interactive points of information, can include three dimensional measurements and can be used for 3d modelling.
Take a look at the video below to get a better idea of what earthmine panoramas are: eathmine Collection and Project PartnersYesterday, earthmine announced two new partner programs designed to support customer data collection needs. It is possible to become either an earthmine Collection Partner or an earthmine Project Partner. "The data collection capability of the new hardware system will change how people think about when and where to use mobile 3D mapping,” said Anthony Fassero, co-founder and co-CEO of earthmine. Custom Satellite View with Google Maps.
Cartagen Warping Tool The Google Maps API v3 has a great feature that lets you take and add your own Custom Street Views to Google Maps. Unfortunately it doesn't have a similar feature to add your own aerial imagery. Step forward then Cartagen Warping Tool. This tool allows you to upload your own aerial imagery and place it on top of Google Maps. The application includes tools that allow you to rotate and scale your images to fit the underlying map tiles.
In the unlikely event that you can't afford your own satellite you could always try and create aerial imagery with a kite or a remote controlled helicopter. OK, the Google Maps API v3 actually does have a feature that allows you to add your own aerial imagery. Development Blog » Google API V3: Custom StreetView. Google API V3: Custom StreetView by Oleg Dzhimiev UPD: Google has updated their Salt Lake City images in their StreetView – so, the comparison is better now. Click here for the active view (resizeable) Description Works in Firefox 4.0 and Chrome. Does NOT work in Firefox 3.6.X. The above sample shows how custom panoramas (in our case: a panorama we shot with our Elphel Eyesis) can be integrated in a custom StreetView. Elphel Eyesis images is the top-left window. The Open Street Map is for switching between the available panorama points and the Google Map with a pegman is filling the otherwise unused space at the same time generously showing the view direction.
Links Google API V3 PS. How to navigate multiple Google maps panoramas using AJAX. Virtual Tours with Custom Street Views. Creating Custom Street Views. Providing Custom StreetView Panoramas One of the most exciting developments for me in v3 of the Google Maps API is the support for custom Street Views. With the new Google Maps API it is possible to seamlessly add your own panoramic images to Street View with links from Google's Street View imagery. For an example click on the Google Sydney link in this Street View map, Google Office Sydney. This feature has been largely undocumented by Google, until now. Now Google have added instructions on how to create your own Street View to the Google Maps API v3 documentation. The documentation includes instructions on how to create your own custom panorama tiles and how to integrate your own panoramas with Street View.
Kerken Kijken met Street View This Dutch website is the first example I've seen of someone making use of this new feature in the Google Maps API. Kerken Kijken have a number of 360 degree panoramic images of the interiors of churches in Utrecht. Marc Ridey - Blog: Custom panoramas in Maps Javascript API v3 - Street View. How to display a custom panorama Register a pano provider in the panorama that returns a StreetViewPanoramaData. The critical element is the 'tiles' property that defines the set of tiles required for the panorama. How to set the address text in a custom panorama Set the description value of the StreetViewLocation in the StreetViewPanoramaData object return by the panoProvider. How to set the copyright in a custom panorama Set the copyright value in the StreetViewPanoramaData object return by the panoProvider.
How to set the links in a custom panorama Provide a links array of StreetViewLink in the StreetViewPanoramaData object return by the panoProvider. How to set specify the color and opacity of a link in a custom panorama Set the roadColor and roadOpacity fields in the StreetViewLink objects in the links array. Custom Panorama AND normal map in sync. - Google Maps JavaScript API v3. Maps Javascript API V3 Services - Google Maps JavaScript API V3 - Google Code. Marc Ridey - Blog: How to create and display a custom Street View panorama using Maps Javascript API v3.
Maps Javascript API V3 Services - Google Maps JavaScript API V3 - Google Code. Can I use the Google Streeview API with my own images. Building Maker - Create 3D buildings online. Street View takes you inside museums around the world. We’re always excited to share new Street View imagery with users, whether a botanical garden in South Africa or ski slopes in Canada.
While Street View has enabled users to visit places all around the world virtually, the demand to show a broader range of popular locations has been great. Today we’re entering new territory with our experiment to take Street View technology indoors. The Art Project, developed by a group of art-loving Googlers, is a collaboration between Google and 17 of the world’s most acclaimed museums. Select works of art chosen by these partners are now available for you to explore through Street View in Google Maps, and the Art Project site offers an immersive experience to explore museum information, floor plans, more than 1000 high-resolution pieces, and Street View imagery.
Learn more about the Art Project on the Official Google Blog. To take you inside magnificent spaces like the State Hermitage Museum in St. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Streetview Mapsicle v1.0 Reference. A library to put overlays - images, text or HTML content - on top of a panorama in Street View. They can follow a location (given by lat/lng) or be at a fixed position on screen (coming soon).
For now, Mapsicle doesn't work in full-screen mode. To register callbacks for events, use the GEvent interface and register for events on the Mapsicle object that you create. For a description and examples of how to use this library, check out the how-to. class Mapsicle Constructor Methods Events class MapsicleParams Configuration options when initializing Mapsicle. Properties class SVCustomInfoWindow class SVCustomInfoWindowParams The parameters when constructing an SVCustomInfoWindow.
Class SVLocation class SVLocationParams The parameters when constructing an SVLocation. Class SVMarker class SVMarkerParams The parameters when constructing an SVMarker. Class SVMiniInfoBox class SVMiniInfoBoxParams The parameters when constructing an SVMiniInfoBox. Class SVTrackingOverlay. How to create a panorama and display it using the Google maps API using free software « Fallen Empires – Halcyon.