Share panoramas and photos
Use the form below to share a photo through Viewer Lite. Viewer Pro can accomplish the same through Control Panel button Share
.
Enter your photo location URL, hit button Fill, then click on Link to copy the content.
Links are used in various applications.
View a panorama
sample
referenced in Google Maps, or
see it in Google Earth.
Add Custom Plugins
You can add custom controls to the panorama scene in Viewer Pro. A sample
VS10 project shows how easy it is to adapt an existing UserControl (a clock) as a plugin. The only code changes are shown in italics:
public partial class MainPage : UserControl, sloVlib.IPlugin
public UIElement GetPluginControl() { return this; }
The project also needs a reference to the downloadable library
sloVlib. Plugins could be positioned inside a panorama as-is (2D), or embedded in hotspots (2D/3D).
Example - the sample clock is added as a hotspot to a 3D panorama.
Free panorama photo-stitching with ICE
Install and open ICE (
Microsoft Image Composite Editor),
drag and drop your photos and wait for the stitched image - it's automatic!
Crop the image horizonally or vertically if needed, then export in the format of your choice (jpeg,png,HD,tiff,etc.)
Some photo sets cannot be stitched by ICE. In such rare cases try using another (backup)
free stitching software like
Hugin or
PTGui.
How to geotag your photos with free GeoSetter, Microsoft Photo Tools or Picasa
Stitching software usually erases most photo information stored in the
individual JPEG files, like camera make and model, exposure time, etc. You
can restore this information and add more by using photo editing programs. With
GeoSetter you can also geotag your photos - add the exact Earth position where
the photo was taken. These latitude and longitude coordinates are used by
Google, lockr and our viewer to show maps.
Install and open GeoSetter.
Picture on the right shows the minimal steps to follow:
1 - select a folder with photos
2- select a single photo
3 - in the Search box, enter the location name where the photo was taken. If
Google finds it, it will show a map with a red marker. Move the marker to the
exact place.
4 - hit the icon "red marker with left arrow" to geotag your photo.
You can also add or edit other fields like country, state, city, author, etc.
Finally save the photo file(s).
You can automatically update many photos at once using GPS tracks (trail of GPS points).
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As alternative, you can use
Microsoft Photo
Tools - another free application.
You can also geotag with
Picasa (version 3 and newer) by selecting one or more pictures and hitting the Geotag button. You need to have the free
Google Earth application installed, since Picasa geotagging is done through Google Earth.
The viewer can read GPS data from a JPEG photo file and pop-up a Google Map with
its location. When GPS data is present, the control panel info icon is green -
.
How to geotag without changing your photo
The viewer has an optional parameter
LatLon which is used to set the geotag of
your photo. Use website
getlatlon.com to find your photo location on the world map.
The Latitude and Longitude will appear automatically below the map.
Copy the two numbers and paste them in your web page in viewer parameter LatLon.
Replace the comma with a semicolon and cut down precision to 5 digits after the decimal point. Example:
LatLon=69.66102;19.00703
Using a proxy to load remote panoramas
Remote JPEG files are loaded into the viewer without a problem. Remote XML and MOV files, however, require permission.
Their remote domains must have file
crossdomain.xml allowing access, like
this one on Flickr.
If
crossdomain.xml is not present, you can still get the file, but you need to have a
local proxy.
Here is an example of a
working PHP Proxy Script. With this proxy, the viewer setting would look like:
Image=http://yourServer.com/imgproxy.php?url=http://www.mediavr.com/media/eurekatower.mov
Create URL files in Windows
- Open your browser, type or paste a photo link(URL) in the address box and hit Enter.
- After the image has loaded, click on the address box icon and drag to an open folder
in Windows Explorer (or to Desktop in Vista).
- A new link file will be created. The extension is ".url", but is invisible by default
in Windows Explorer.
Get here a sample collection of panorama URL
files you can open in the viewer.
Miscellaneous
