Street View Inside Buildings
Snommelp-PGO
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This has happened to me at least three times now - when determining the location accuracy, I'm given Google Street View that is INSIDE a building. Which, firstly: what??? How? Why? Google, what are you doing?
But more importantly: what's the best practice here? For now I've been going to satellite view and trying my best to match it up with the picture(s). But even doing that, I don't feel completely comfortable giving a 5 star location rating.
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I usually got satellite view and try to find the object if anything I usually just give it a 3 star rating for the location. usually the supporting photo should show the surrounding are to help determine the location as well
Using the Google Street View app, which is separate to Google Maps, users can upload photospheres which, when accepted and published by Google, will appear on Google Maps as Street View images.
It's common practice for wayspot submitters to upload photospheres for nominations that may be hard to see from satellite view or regular street view. It's also common for businesses to take photospheres (or pay someone else to take photospheres) inside their premises so that people can have a look around. I often find that in the latter case, the photospheres aren't always in the right positions (they're close, but inaccurate).
If you get an interior photosphere (or an exterior one) that doesn't show what you're expecting to see, back out to satellite view, zoom in, and then drag pegman onto the map and look for other blue circles nearby (those represent photospheres). It can be a bit annoying if the one good photosphere is in the middle of a load of irrelevant ones, but that's part of the perils of indoor nominations.
You know what? I completely forgot about indoor nominations. Since you've reminded me of them, I'll clarify that I meant outdoor nominations with indoor Street View. Something like a plaque on a tree, and Street View would be in a dentist's waiting room.