Google officially merges Google Views with Google Maps

Google Views was a lesser known place where people could upload their own photos or photospheres to Google Maps for all to see. Whenever you were in Google Maps and saw photos at the bottom of the screen, those were all taken from Google Views contributors. Unfortunately, that service has been officially shut down by Google.

The good news is Google is now moving all that Views data into Google Maps. Google Maps now has a Contributions button inside the navigation drawer where you can look over all of your Google Views photos or reviews that you have contributed over the years.

In my opinion, this was a smart move from Google as Google Views being separated, yet still a huge part of Google Maps, didn’t really make much sense. Now everything should be much smoother and cohesive. The only problem is at the moment Google does not allow anyone to contribute photos or photospheres to Google Maps. They have also taken away a lot of old features that made Views so great such as showing dots on the map that show where you took a photo.

It is unfortunate that many Views features have vanished and you can’t upload any new photos, but Google says that is only for now. Over the next year they will be slowly adding back in those features to Google Maps to create one cohesive experience.

Source: Google Maps (Google+)

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