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How to create Google Maps Virtual Tours (not just 360 photos) automatically

Everyone knows that you can share 360 photos on Google Maps’ Street View. But how would you like to be able to post a virtual tour to Google Maps? Cupix is a software will do it for you automatically. But it won’t teach you how to fight off the hugs and kisses that your clients will inevitably try to give you.

Google Maps Street View Virtual Tours

Google Street View is one of the most popular platforms for sharing 360 photos, particularly of businesses and places. But in addition to 360 photos, Google Street View can also include virtual tours. Here is a sample virtual tour of Disneyland:

By allowing viewers to ‘move around,’ the virtual tour gives viewers an even more immersive view,

Creating a Google Maps Street View Virtual Tour manually

Before we discuss Cupix, I wanted to show you first how to create a virtual tour the conventional way on Street View. Besides uploading the 360 photos, you need to connect them. If they have GPS data, they can be automatically connected. Otherwise, you’ll need to connect them manually. Here’s how to connect them manually: 1. On the Street View app, go to the Profile tab. 2. Select the photos you want to connect and tap on the upper right corner and select “Move and connect photos.” 3. On the next screen, you’ll see all the photos on a map. You’ll then have to position each node in the correct location vis-a-vis each other. 4. Tap on a line between photos to connect them. 5. For each photo, you must also reorient the photo by sliding the equirectangular view left or right. 6. For each photo, you must also place the correct compass orientation by sliding the compass indicator left or right.

For a tour with only a few nodes, it’s not too bad. But for a tour with many nodes, it is quickly becomes very tedious.

CUPIX: Create Street View Virtual Tours automatically

The good news is that there’s now a shortcut for creating Street View Virtual Tours automatically – with Cupix, a web-based virtual tour software. I’ve covered Cupix before (see here) . If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a unique virtual tour software that lets you upload several 360 photos, which it can analyze and automatically connect in relation to each other, and even create a 3D model in the process.

Now Cupix has added a new function: you can export your Cupix virtual tour as a Street View Virtual Tour. Since the photos are already connected in Cupix, you won’t have to connect the photos manually in Street View! Here’s a video demo:

Cupix therefore enables you to upload several 360 photos, have Cupix’s powerful software connect them, and then you can upload the tour to Google Maps, allowing you to create a virtual tour on Street View without the need to connect any of the photos manually, whether or not your photos have GPS geolocation data.

Now that you know how to post virtual tours easily to Google Maps, which virtual tour are you going to post first?  Let me know in the comments!

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Actualy, on mobile it is already with arrows so you are talking about use of app for descktop version?

Hi Stan. Some of the photos on street view have arrows (whether on desktop or mobile) because they are virtual tours. You can “move around” them. Others are simple photos that don’t have arrows. Here is a sample of one that doesn’t have arrows: https://goo.gl/maps/8UNnoy9gzzq Here is a sample with one arrow to move to a linked photo: https://goo.gl/maps/MrT4KFBus1q Best regards, Mic

Can this be used if the map can not be posted to google?

I’m not sure…

Is there any software other than cupix. Some works have different floor levels and how its done..

Yes there are several such as Matterport, Benaco, Metareal, among others.

Can you update your instructions for manual virtual tour? Or add some screen shots, it’s not working for me. I don’t know where the “profile tab” is.

Cupix is way too overpriced.

hi. i have a problem with street view pls help me. when i add some 360 photos and make them connect .they are connected and have arrow between but in vr mood i dont how arrow for moving.what is the problem?:I(

Hi. Many times happen that in the mobile version, the profile business is connected with a old photo( just one), posted for chance by a tourist . It is practically impossible to say to street view to remove the old picture and connect with the new one with the virtual tour. Very bad service by street view. Even if using google business and say to street view that the pictures is not correct , street view will not remove. So, is useless to make a new virtual tour if in the profile there is already a single stupid 360 old photo

That’s both a problem and opportunity…

Hello, I just downloaded the Cupix and transfer the photos, but I can’t make the pane to face where I want. I’m wondering if you have a tutorial, I was checking in Youtube, but I couldn’t find the answer. Great product is just a learning process.

Hi Axel. I haven’t used Cupix in a while. Could you try contacting Cupix?

Hey, I´ve currently got the issue, that I connected the Photos I uploaded on google, but the arrows don’t appear in the photos to move around. So now I’ve got several different photos online, but you have to go from one photo to another one manually. which isn’t really the point of it. I did this in the google street view app without any external software. Thank you for your Help

Hi Klemens. It usually takes a couple of days for the links to appear. Try to wait and see.

I’m currently adding photos to a location on the Google Street View app, but can’t figure out how to connect them. Could you elaborate on what you mean by “tap on a line between photos to connect them.” Should a line automatically populate? Do I need to create a line between them somehow? Pretty lost on this step.

Seems like it needs a login to access now… bummer. I will try the other apps you so kindly mentioned!

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Show your business inside and out

Photos and virtual tours help people decide to visit a business. Ramp up your online presence and show your business in its best light, indoor and outdoor. Let your customers know what to expect while browsing Street View imagery before they visit.

countries and territories on Street View

monthly users on Google Maps

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Let people know what to expect with a 360 view of your storefront

Create your own outdoor imagery to guide visitors to your location and show them important information like where they can park, or if your entrance is wheelchair accessible.

Make your business stand out with a virtual tour

Welcome customers inside to help them get a feel for your business and what it has to offer before they arrive. Capture shots of your facilities, product shelves, and menus and publish them to Street View yourself, or with the help of a professional.

Keep your visitors coming back with fresh imagery

You just completed a remodel or started offering new products? Update your photos on Street View.  Be in control of your online image, by regularly keeping your customers in the loop with changes and exciting offerings.

How to get started

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Three Sixty Factory creates high quality 360° virtual tours of your business for Google Maps and for your website. 

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Choosing the right restaurant, cafe or hotel is often tough. Build trust with a high-quality virtual tour that lets people experience your location before they arrive. These immersive, virtual experiences inspire greater confidence among prospective guests and patrons. 

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In Spring 2018 Google launched their VR Tour Creator. This free tools lets anyone create their own virtual tour that can be viewed on a computer, tablet, or phone web browser, or using Google Cardboard. When creating a tour, one has the option on utilizing any of the street-view images on Google Maps, or uploading their own images using a 360° camera or iOS apps like "Google Street View" or "Google Cardboard". Creator also allows you to add points of interest as well as audio to your tour locations.

View my first use of Tour Creator using only Google Maps images.

Google Tour Creator has the ability to have a huge impact in teaching and learning. Teachers can create tours that allow students to get a stronger sense of "Setting" when reading a novel or learning about a historical event. Students can create tours showing what they have learned about a place. Google Tour Creator also has templates available so that users do not have to necessarily start from scratch.

Some of the educational uses of this tool may include:

• Virtual Setting Tour of a Novel- Imagine creating a tour following Chris McCandless in "Into the Wild"
• Paul Revere's Ride
• Travels of Marco Polo
• Tour of Paris, Rome, New York City, etc.
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Watch some of these videos that will show you not only how to create tours, but how they can be used in a classroom.

Take a virtual travel day with Street View

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As a program manager for Street View, I’ve had the opportunity to work in more than 20 countries around the world, collecting imagery that transports people to new places and powers Google Maps. 

You can even find my blurred face from time to time in Street View. I’ve trekked a desert in Abu Dhabi (with a camel no less) and walked around the Great Pyramids of Giza (I’m the blurred face to the right). You can see my reflection throughout the 152nd floor of the Burj Khalifa , as I operate the Street View camera, and you can see me playing tourist in the canals of Venice . 

Like many people though, life and work look different for me now than it did last year. While travel is now out of the question for many, that doesn't mean exploring and learning about our world has to stop. 

Over the past 60 days we’ve seen Google Search interest spike more than 700 percent for virtual tours worldwide. People are looking to discover world famous museums, with the Louvre, the Smithsonian and the MoMA among the five most searched virtual tours globally. Alongside museums, people are also searching for a little bit of whimsy and beauty with searches for Disney virtual tours and Versailles virtual tours rounding out the list.

Those destinations only scratch the surface of what you can explore in Street View. There’s more than 10 million miles of Street View imagery you can freely explore by yourself or with professional guides who are taking their walking tours virtual. Today, I’m inviting people worldwide to take time for a virtual travel day on Street View. 

When I drop into a new place with Street View, it shakes up my routine, broadens my perspective, makes me feel more creative and brings a smile to my face. If you’re like me, sometimes you need an idea of where to go before you, well, go. So here are a few virtual travel itineraries with pictures of my favorite places to travel to in Street View:

Picture perfect landscapes

Quttinirpaaq National Park, Greenland

Doi Angkhang, Thailand

Milford Track, New Zealand

Northern Lights, Finland

Kegon Waterfalls, Japan

Le Mont Blanc, Switzerland

Moraine Lake, Canada

Streets with a view

Passo del Stelvio, Italy

Road 63, Norway

Seven Mile Bridge, United States

R759, Ireland

Ruta Provincial 74, Argentina

Places of worship

Bathalla Monastery, Portugal

Saint Stephen's Basilica, Hungary

Badshahi Mosque, Bangladesh

Sagrada Familia, Spain

Itsukushima Shrine, Japan

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center, United Arab Emirates

Ancient sites

Angkor Wat - Ta Prohm Temple, Cambodia

Machu Picchu, Peru

Pyramids of Giza, Egypt

Tikal, Guatemala

Carthage, Tunisia

Petra, Jordan

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How to add a google map to a virtual tour.

Add a container to your skin to contain the Google Map and name it MapContainer.

Add an “Execute JavaScript” action to MapContainer to be executed “On Show” and enter a code like this (filling the config part as explained below):

Filling the config part of the code

You’ll need to get a Google Maps JavaScript API key, please follow the steps described here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key

If you restrict your API key to the URL of your tour, as advised on the link, and you want the map to appear on the preview you’ll need to add http://localhost:8000/index.htm?* to the Website restrictions list.

Please make sure you enclose the API key between quotes in the config:

   apiKey: 'abc123abc'

centerLat and centerLng

These are the coordinates where the map center will be displayed.

You can get the coordinates of a place as explained here: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/18539

This is the zoom level of the map. It is an integer value, the minimum value is 0, which will display the whole world, the maximum value varies depending on where the map is centered. You can start with a value of 10 and try increasing and decreasing it according to your needs.

This is a list of the marks (the red icon) linked to the tour media that you want to display on the map. You’ll have to fill the latitude and longitude of the marker (lat and lng field), the tooltip that will be displayed while hovering the icon (toolTip field) and the name of the media as it appears in VT Pro (mediaName field).

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Google Earth Tour Guide: 14 Virtual Tours You'll Want to Check Out

Here are some of the best Google Earth virtual tours available. Travel to the world's most exotic places from your couch!

For ages, Google Earth has remained the go-to service for browsing our globe. You can use this app to visit all corners of the planet from the comfort of your living room. In 2017, Google Earth was also completely overhauled to add more features. This overhaul included additional Google virtual tours to the world's most remote and amazing places.

Here are the best Google Maps tours that are available on Google Earth.

1. Life in the Ocean Deep

With Life in the Ocean Deep, you can discover mysterious sea creatures with the help of renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough. This Google tour takes you on a journey through the many quirky yet breathtaking creatures that inhabit our oceans, like glow-in-the-dark jellyfish and giant crabs.

Assisting this Google Earth tour are a series of videos and underwater maps.

2. UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Looking to dive into the past? Follow this Google Maps virtual tour as it briefs you on thirty historic landmarks that were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. The tour includes but is not limited to, India's Taj Mahal, Cambodia's Towers of Angkor Wat, and Spain's Catedral de Sevilla.

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3. This is Home

Sometimes home is where the heart is, even if that home is very far away. With This is Home, Google lets you visit traditional homes from around the world. You'll even get to know about the history behind each of these places and get a glimpse inside the unique structures with Google Street View.

For instance, Jordan's House of Hair is a string of tents constructed from the hair of camels and other animals. It's located in the middle of the desert, but some of the other houses on this tour are located in even more far-flung regions than that.

4. Stop and Smell the Flowers

Stop and Smell the Flowers is a Google virtual tour that takes you on a journey through some of the most breathtaking botanical gardens and arboretums around the world. This tour highlights a total of eleven places, ranging from countries like Russia, Sweden, and Canada, to the Netherlands.

If you're into gardening, then this one is for you.

5. Pilgrimage to Mecca

Every year, many thousands of Muslims embark on a pilgrimage to Mecca, a holy city for practitioners of the Islamic faith. Google's virtual tour lets you learn about this practice, from landing at the Hajj Terminal Jeddah Airport to the final destination of Masjid al-Haram.

6. Global Flea Markets

Have you ever had an interest in bustling flea markets? Experience them yourself with this Google Maps virtual tour. This tour walks you through nine of the most iconic markets worldwide, such as France's Les Puces de Saint-Ouen, India's Anjuna Flea Market, and London's Portobello Market.

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7. Colorful Street Fests & Carnivals

Being a land of diverse cultures and societies, the world is laden with numerous festivals. The most vibrant of them are covered in a Google Maps tour.

This tour features eight of the biggest celebrations from around the globe. These celebrations include the large-scale food fight La Tomatina in Spain, Holi in India, and Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

8. Comic Geek Destinations

Unleash your inner geek with this virtual tour that takes you on a trip through a bunch of iconic comic book spots. Comic Geek Destinations curates a total of ten locations known for appearing in various fictional universes. One of these locations is the Parkwood Estate. It was a mansion used by X-Men's Professor Xavier for his school of "Gifted Youngsters."

If you feel like doing some light reading after this tour, here are the best ways to read comics online for free .

9. Iconic Film Locations in the Mediterranean

Are you more of a movie buff than a comic book aficionado? Try out this tour featuring iconic film locations in the Mediterranean.

In this tour, you can travel to each selected landmark where a movie scene has been shot. If you don't want to use Google Earth to find these spots, however, here's how to track down your favorite film locations using websites.

10. International Year of the Reef

Coral reefs have been in peril for many decades now due to the threat of global warming. To raise awareness on this issue, a Google Maps virtual tour was set up to help familiarize the public with the basics.

With the International Year of the Reef, you can see how these marvelous underwater colonies are formed over millions of years. Each chapter in the tour also discusses fundamental topics like coral reef diversity. Additionally, it includes video highlights and subaqueous street view images.

11. In Mandela's Footsteps

Sometimes you can take a virtual walk through history. In Mandela's Footsteps lets you follow the journey of the legendary political leader and former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela.

This tour highlights the places that played a critical role in Mandela's life. For example, there's a page devoted to the University of Fort Hare. It was one of the first institutions in the region that allowed non-white people to study for a post-secondary degree.

12. Reading the ABCs from Space

Perhaps one of the most intriguing virtual tours available on Google Earth is Reading the ABCs from Space. Developed by NASA, this tour consists of twenty-six chapters that reveal locations on the planet that form an alphabet from space.

Our personal favorite is the letter "J" off the coast of Australia, which is made up of a coral reef.

If space is your jam, here are great resources to learn all about Mars .

13. The Beautiful Game

If you're in a World Cup spirit, you might want to check out The Beautiful Game. This Google Earth tour takes you on a trip through some of the planet's most unforgettable soccer destinations. The destinations include the Allianz Arena in Munich, Barcelona's Camp Nou, and Old Trafford in England.

14. National Parks of the United States

Looking for natural wonders closer to home? Especially ones that will help you appreciate the great outdoors?

If so, then you need to check out the National Parks of the United States. It's a virtual tour that will take you on a journey through the most pristine areas of wilderness from coast to coast, ranging from Acadia National Park to Denali.

Use a Google Tour to Visit the World

While all of these virtual tours are absolutely amazing, we've barely scratched the surface in just how many there are. If you go deep-diving through the archives, you'll also find that the tours are divided into subcategories like nature, culture, education, and street view. The best thing about the tours is that they're entirely free. A reliable, high-bandwidth connection to view them is a must, however.

For those that want to dig deeper into this app, it might surprise you to learn that Google Earth is an offshoot of Google Maps. With that in mind, take some time to understand how Google Maps works .

Stuck at home and long to go outside? Here are a few more virtual outdoors tours you can do from home and live sightseeing webcams you can stream .