Publishing to Google Street View

Publish your 360° tours to Google Street View on Google Maps using your own Google account. Visitors can then find your panoramas on Google Maps and walk through them.

Before you start

  • A Google account — you only need to connect it once.
  • The project must have a coordinate system (real-world GPS coordinates). Tours shot on a phone or projects with a coordinate system configured on the Coordinates page qualify.
  • Your pricing plan must include Street View publishing.

How to publish

  1. Connect your Google account — either on your Profile page or in a project's Street View panel, click Connect Google account and approve access.
  2. Open the project and go to Settings → Street View.
  3. The table lists your panoramas with their coordinates. Leave them all selected (or pick specific ones) and click Publish selected.
  4. Publishing runs in the background and may take a while for large tours — refresh the page to see each panorama's status. Linked panoramas are connected so visitors can move between them using the blue navigation line on Google Maps.
  5. Once a panorama is published, a link to it on Google Maps appears in the table.

Publishing rules and requirements

Street View has technical and content requirements. Panoramas that don't meet them may be rejected by Google during review.

Technical

  • Each panorama must be a full 360° sphere with a 2:1 aspect ratio and valid Photo Sphere metadata. Google uses this metadata, rather than the image pixels, to identify a photo as 360°. The app prepares all of this for you automatically.
  • Each image is limited to 75 MB and 100 megapixels.
  • Real GPS coordinates are required — without a position, a panorama cannot be placed on the map.

Content

  • Publish only your own photography — no third-party or copyrighted imagery.
  • Photos must look realistic: no heavy editing, collages or visible stitching artefacts.
  • No advertising, logos, watermarks, borders or added text.
  • Respect privacy — Google automatically blurs faces and license plates, but don't rely on this when deciding what to upload. Do not upload private, offensive or illegal content.
  • Content must genuinely represent the real-world location where it is placed.

Positioning and connections

  • Accurate coordinates keep panoramas in the right spot on the map.
  • The blue navigation line is built from the links between panoramas in your project. Google may adjust, reposition or recreate photos and connections to keep the tour realistic.

Good to know

  • Street View photos are public on Google Maps — only publish tours you want to make public.
  • The first time you publish, Google may ask you to accept the Street View contributor terms in the Google Maps app.
  • After publishing, Google reviews and processes panoramas before they appear on the map — this can take days. Google emails you when a panorama goes live but does not report review progress back to the platform.
  • To take panoramas down, select them and click Remove from Street View. Disconnecting your Google account does not remove panoramas that are already published.
  • Very large projects are published in batches over several days (Google limits how many photos can be uploaded per day) — just click Publish again the next day to continue where the process left off.
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