Publishing to Google Street View

Publish your 360° tours to Google Street View on Google Maps, under your own Google account. Visitors can then find your panoramas on Google Maps and walk through them.

Before you start

  • A Google account — you connect it once.
  • The project must have a coordinate system (real-world GPS coordinates). Tours shot on a phone, or projects with a coordinate system set on the Coordinates page, qualify.
  • Your pricing plan must include Street View publishing.

How to publish

  1. Connect your Google account — on your Profile page, or from a project's Street View panel, click Connect Google account and approve access.
  2. Open the project and go to Settings → Street View.
  3. The table lists your panoramas with their coordinates. Leave them all selected (or pick specific ones) and click Publish selected.
  4. Publishing runs in the background and may take a while for large tours — refresh the page to see each panorama's status. Linked panoramas are connected to each other, so visitors can step between them (the blue navigation line on Google Maps).
  5. Once a panorama is published, a link to it on Google Maps appears in the table.

Publishing rules and requirements

Street View has technical and content requirements. Panoramas that don't meet them may be rejected by Google during review.

Technical

  • Each panorama must be a full 360° sphere with a 2:1 aspect ratio and valid Photo Sphere metadata — Google identifies a 360 photo by this, not by the pixels. The app prepares all of this for you automatically.
  • Each image is limited to 75 MB and 100 megapixels.
  • Real GPS coordinates are required — without a position a panorama cannot be placed on the map.

Content

  • Publish only your own photography — no third-party or copyrighted imagery.
  • Photos must look realistic: no heavy editing, collages or visible stitching artefacts.
  • No advertising, logos, watermarks, borders or added text.
  • Respect privacy — Google automatically blurs faces and licence plates, but don't upload content that depends on it. No private, offensive or illegal content.
  • Content must genuinely represent the real-world location it is placed at.

Positioning and connections

  • Accurate coordinates keep panoramas in the right spot on the map.
  • The blue navigation line is built from the links between panoramas in your project. Google may adjust, reposition or re-create photos and connections to keep the tour realistic.

Good to know

  • Street View photos are public on Google Maps — only publish tours you want to be publicly visible.
  • On your first publish, Google may ask you to accept the Street View contributor terms in the Google Maps app.
  • After publishing, Google reviews and processes panoramas before they show on the map — this can take days. Use Refresh Google Maps status in the project's Street View panel to see whether each panorama is still processing, live on the map, or rejected.
  • To take panoramas down, select them and click Remove from Street View. Disconnecting your Google account does not remove panoramas that are already published.
  • Very large projects publish in batches across several days (Google limits how many photos can be uploaded per day) — just press Publish again the next day to continue where it left off.
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