360Cities, one of a new crop of georeferenced city panorama photography sites (see also Arounder and ViewAt, reviewed here), is now using Google Earth 4.2’s ability to render embedded spheres using KML 2.2’s PhotoOverlay tag, writes 360Cities’ Jeffrey Martin. All 2,700 panoramas are being converted, but work has just started, so it will take a while. One city that is ready is Stuttgart. Check out its KML file.
Jeffrey adds:
We’ve updated the 360cities.net homepage also – 27 cities now and many more to come. It is really turning into a monster ;-)
(See also the Gigapxl and Gigapan default layers in Google Earth for more PhotoOverlay goodness.)
Why would you upload your VR images to a platform that does such a terrible job displaying them? (http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-earth-gigapan-disappointing.html)
It’s time to hold Google to a higher standard. Their current implementation of viewing 360 imagery just doesn’t cut it for me.
These bugs were addressed in the latest version of the beta.
Great panoramas!!!!