Make a 360 Degree Tour using Google Maps
by admin
I love to play with stuff, I’m a kid at heart and the internet is the coolest toy I could’ve asked for.
I was looking for directions to the ReStore here in Nanaimo, so I jumped on Google Maps and zoomed around with street view to locate the entrance. Remembering that all of Nanaimo (or most anyway) is now street view enabled, I checked out my little place on Craig Street.
The resolution is pretty good, I can see my Honda Element and neighbours’ cars. Zooming around, I thought to myself “you could create a cool-ish 360 if you screencapped all the street view angles and loaded them into some sort of 360 degree program”. That’s when I remembered MS Photosynth, a cool program that takes your photos and uses logic to seam them together.
It’s free, so I went to Google Maps and used FireShot to capture images of my complex and the surroundings. I cropped the photos using Irfanview, loaded them into Photosynth and got this as a result.
Pretty cool right? Here’s what you need to pull it off