Hi Hopki,
Hopki wrote: ↑Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:25 pm The problem with using "in pano" or in viewer hotspot placement with GPS is that it does not describe distance.
Yes, and most pano tours I do do not have perfect grid structures, so being able to tweak the position of a target pano while still "viewing" another pano is really important... so you can see how the target arrow is changing position.
Hopki wrote: ↑Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:25 pm
Our solution was to use a floor plan.
This will keep the accuracy with the distance between the nodes when the floor plan is Geo Located.
Well, to an extent... but if you have a floor plan the exact position of each pano WITHIN each of the rooms still needs to be determined/tweaked... often there are aisles/furniture etc which are not on a floor plan, or a room might be very big, so exact position is not necessarily accurate with a floor plan. I have only every had two clients who actually had floor plans, and one of them was pre-remodelling... so placement of furniture etc was different.
Hopki wrote: ↑Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:25 pm
Also there is a huge difference in Maps, if you use Satellite View and then switch to Road Map, its meters and in some place's a few Meters.
Of course the new select all pins and transform found in Pano2VR 6 pro will allow you to move the constellation to better place on the different Maps.
With Google Street View, the actual exact position and size of the tour does not matter, as long as it is at the correct property. You could shrink your tour down to a tiny fraction of the size of the building and still it would render perfectly, it is the relative position that matters, not the actual position of each pano.
Hopki wrote: ↑Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:25 pm
As Don says, it May be that you take a screen shot of a map before you go on the shoot then take a measurement while there.
Then on return Geo Locate the screen shot and place your pins.
This would not help in most cases, because there are many rooms, aisles, objects, doorways, features etc which are in very specific positions, and an image of the outline of the entire building would be almost useless... it does not show rooms or any of the other details, so you'd still have to guess and tweak, and would still be faced with the severe challenge of working out relative positions trying to use the tools in pano2VR.
I will explore pano2VR for doing interactive projects, but for Google Street View projects, I'm sad to say it falls far short of what I had hoped it would be capable of... Thanks for your help clarifying the issues for me.
Mark.