With Android 4.2, Google asks users to submit their panoramas

A user-contributed panorama of San Francisco’s Dolores Park.
(Credit: Screenshot by Casey Newton/CNET)
Google Maps’ Street View feature has long allowed users to get a glimpse of far-flung destinations in 360-degree panoramas. Today the company is inviting users to contribute panoramas of their own.

Today Google unveiled Android 4.2, whose features include a new camera option called “Photo Spheres.” A Photo Sphere is a 360-degree panorama akin to similar offerings from Microsoft (Photosynth) and the namesake product of startup TourWrist.
Only Photo Spheres, though, can be uploaded to…

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