Help Desk Hangouts: Learn about photo tours in Google Maps

Опубликовано 4 мая 2012, 20:57

Learn more about photo tours, a feature of Google Maps that guides you through a 3D photo scene featuring public user photos from Panoramio and Picasa. Google Maps specialists Daniel, Jade, Ryan and Vanessa demo this new feature and tell you more about how we put these tours together.

Explore all our photos tours today (make sure you have Google MapsGL enabled): maps.google.com/phototours

Video breakdown:

0:02 Intros
0:45 What is a photo tour in Google Maps?
1:49 How do you access photo tours?
4:00 Introduction to maps.google.com/phototours site
6:00 Photo tour of Wrigley Field (in honor of baseball season!)
6:50 Vote up tours, share tours, and fast forward to the next tour nearby
7:36 How to report inappropriate content
8:25 Other ways to find photo tours
9:55 Tour of Trevi Fountain
10:20 How Google creates these photo tours
11:58 How to upload a photo to Panoramio: panoramio.com
15:16 Attributions
15:37 Teamwork!
16:08 Questions from users
17:05 Technical issues? Tell us in the Google Maps forum:
17:40 Tour of Universal Studios Japan and more!
20:31 Wrapup