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\"\"Google announced earlier this month<\/a> that their updated Street View app<\/a> for Android\u2014as an Apple user I had no idea that Street View was a separate app on Android\u2014now supports user-contributed photos to Street View. \u201cAfter you record your images and publish them via the Street View app, we automatically rotate, position and create a series of connected photos. We then place those connected images in the right place on Google Maps, so your new Street View can be found in the exact location where it was taken for others to see and explore.\u201d\u00a0The idea is to supplement Google\u2019s imagery where it\u2019s thin on the ground.\u00a0This beta feature requires an ARCore-compatible Android device and is only available in a few areas for now: Toronto, New York, and Austin TX (presumably for testing purposes), as well as Costa Rica, Indonesia and Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google announced earlier this month that their updated Street View app for Android\u2014as an Apple user I had no idea that Street View was a separate app on Android\u2014now supports user-contributed photos to Street View.… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[462,82,108],"class_list":["post-1789836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-mobile","tag-google","tag-google-maps","tag-street-view","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1809650,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/11\/report-google-to-shut-down-standalone-street-view-app\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789836,"position":0},"title":"Report: Google to Shut Down Standalone Street View App","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 November 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"According to 9to5Google, Google looks like it\u2019s getting ready to shut down its standalone Street View app (previously). \u201cThis standalone app served two distinct groups of people\u2014those who wanted to deeply browse Street View and those who wanted to contribute their own 360\u00b0 imagery. 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