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When I make a Google Earth KML with geotagged photos which include compass direction, how can I make them show up in street view as the image floating in space, rather than just an icon and field of view?

  • The program knows the size of the image, the focal length etc.  How can I see the photos overlaid on the space? That way I could navigate through the images and see the actual space? (I am currently testing to see if Photosynth will get me this effect, but it seems like Google Earth would be a good place to have this.) If it matters, I used GPS-Photo link to make the KML, and I will try other editors, but I suspect it is not the editor which matters.

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    The streetview display is only usable with the images that Google captures themselves. Partially because the same equipment is used to shoot all of these photos, thus messing with focal length etc is not necessary, and partially because they use special spherical lenses to stitch together spherical panoramas. I would guess that your KMLs have flat, rectangular images, not spherical images. I would also guess that you are not using a spherical lens, not stitching together a single panoramic for each geolocation, as the streetview cameras do. On the other hand, you can just display the photos as "billboards" and view the environment in Ground Level View, instead of Streetview. When you have the buildings layer turned in Google Earth it is even possible to fine-tune your photo placement and have the images match the terrain and environment. I've done this with historical Seattle photos with some success: (From the Google Earth Community forum) http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!searchin/gec/seattle%2420photos/gec-experimental-temporary/_PP_7SONsF8/0l0WXQbc_PUJ

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Roger Rayle

I’m not quite sure what you are trying to do, but it sounds like you want to place pictures in a billboard position, with the vertical axis through a picture perpendicular to the ground, and have this visible in street view.If that is your intent, Street View can’t do it because it has no capability for compositing photospheres with KML. You could digitally composite a stitched photosphere and a snapshot view taken in Google Earth. It would take some skill to make the photograph appear to hang in the sky, as the photosphere is in spherical projection and a screen capture from Google Earth is rectilinear. Not impossible but you have to understand how to do this and have the tools. The result could be published in Street View as a self contained photosphere.I was able to create billboards of photographs that rotated facing the viewer during navigation, using HTML in the placemark description field to show a photograph. This is pretty straightforward. I don’t think the effect is what you are asking about, however.

Steven McQuinn

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