St.Palladius Church in Drumtochty Woods, Aberdeenshire, Scotland - taken this glorius afternoon.

Click image to get Google Maps 360 interactive panorama.



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Cool pictures

That was really neat, how did you make the google map image?

Ricky Wu Posted at 2016-6-16 14:10
Cool pictures

Thank you

hummingbird.uav Posted at 2016-6-16 14:33
That was really neat, how did you make the google map image?

Thank you! Google maps allows you to add photos to existing placemarkers on the map so it limits the locations you can add photos to. Google now accepts 360 degree equirectangular views which are basically 360 by 180 images which are exactly twice as high as they are wide.

If you already have 360 by 180 degree images and upload them to Google, they will be shown in the way my one is at the top of the post. I generally upload them as 12000 pixels wide by 6000 high.

Hope that helps!

davidson_g Posted at 2016-6-16 10:06
Thank you! Google maps allows you to add photos to existing placemarkers on the map so it limits t ...

I was more interested in how you took the image.  Is is a composite of a number of photos taken from a phantom?

hummingbird.uav Posted at 2016-6-16 17:38
I was more interested in how you took the image.  Is is a composite of a number of photos taken fr ...

Ahh - sorry I misunderstood!

It is indeed a composite of around 18-21 images from the Phantom and then another set of the sky taken with a camera on the ground. The images are then stitched together to make a full 360 by 180.

I found a tutorial today (below) which gives an idea of the process. I don't use dronepan myself but shoot manually so that I can carefully expose each image instead of relying on automatic exposure which can blow highlights badly.

davidson_g Posted at 2016-6-16 10:51
Ahh - sorry I misunderstood!

It is indeed a composite of around 18-21 images from the Phantom and ...

Thanks I'll have to try this.