For most kids, exploring these endlessly detailed, incredibly engrossing images should be enough. It's also exciting for kids to see how these citizen geographers might make money from their work: The site features tons of information about how to take one of these panoramic photos, plus how to post and license your work. It's exciting and engaging to explore these photos: You won't quite feel like you're really there, but you can gain extraordinary insight and perspective as you immerse yourself in these spaces. Regular, geo-tagged, images have been available in Earth from Panoramio, the Google-owned photo sharing service.360Cities wasn't created as a tool for learning, but it could certainly make a cool addition to a variety of lessons. Recently, it added space user photos from Slooh. Google has been adding more content sources to Earth. It is also switched on by default, which means that our images will be available to a larger audience than before!," 360 Cities announced on its blog. This layer is new, and contains images by both Panoramio and 360 Cities. "360 Cities has moved from the 'Gallery' layer in Google Earth to the new 'Photos' layer. You can add your own photos by signing up and submitting them to 360 Cities.
The images are now live in Google Earth for everyone. You can 'navigate' inside the photo and move about to see the view from all the angles.
You can then view full image by clicking on it. These photos will be marked by red squares in Google Earth, as opposed to blue ones from Panoramio.Ĭlicking on the square will bring up an info bubble with a preview of the photo and info about its author. The panoramic photos come from 360 Cities, a community for showcasing 360 degree photos. "People using Google Earth will find a new 'Photos' layer that includes not only the existing 2D photos from the Panoramio community, but also panoramic photos from around the world contributed by users of ," he announced. "Today, the Google Earth photo viewing experience just got better with the addition of panoramic images," Wei Luo, Senior Geo Data Strategist at Google, wrote. And now, you can showcase your 360 degree panorama photos in Google Earth.
Panoramic photos are becoming increasingly popular, if only because it's a way of doing something a bit more original now that DSLRs are pretty affordable and point-and-shoot cameras are feature-packed.
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