Which 360 cameras place themselves on the map, and what to do when yours does not.
StrollPoint reads the location written inside each 360 photo on import and drops that photo on the map at the spot it was taken. Shot order becomes walking order. On a property with a hundred photos, that is the difference between a tour that lays itself out and an afternoon of dragging pins.
Nothing here is required. A photo with no location still imports, still works, and still becomes a real point. It just waits for you to say where it belongs.
GoPro Max and the GoPro 360 line have a receiver in the camera. Turn GPS on once in the camera settings, give it a moment outdoors to get a fix, and every photo carries its own coordinates. Nothing else to carry, nothing to pair, and it keeps working when your phone is in your pocket or out of battery.
This is the setup we recommend for anything large: a campground, a campus, a resort. Walk it, shoot it, import it, and the map is already right.
Insta360 X-series cameras have no receiver of their own. They can still stamp photos, but the location comes from your phone over the app, or from a GPS remote. Keep the app connected and location permission granted while you shoot and the stamps come through.
Ricoh Theta works the same way: the location arrives from the phone app, so the app has to be running and paired while you shoot.
Both make excellent tours. Just know that if the phone disconnects halfway round the property, the photos from that stretch arrive with no location, and you place those by hand.
Old shoots, drone stills, a borrowed camera, a phone panorama: if it is a standard 360 photo, it imports and becomes a real point with every feature available to it.
Points that arrive without a location are collected in the Needs placing strip above the map, and each one wears a No GPS on this photo marker so nothing is hidden from you. From there you have two options: Place puts you on the map to drop it exactly where you stood, or Estimate works out a position from the points either side of it in the shoot and puts it between them, which you can then nudge.
Tour readiness counts these for you under On the map, so you always know how many are left.
Put the camera on a monopole rather than holding it. It keeps you out of your own photo, and what little of the pole shows straight down is removed in one press with Nadir Patch.
Shoot at a steady height, roughly eye level, and take a photo about every thirty feet. Even spacing is what makes stepping between points feel like walking rather than teleporting.
Nothing here is proprietary. There is no StrollPoint camera, no rental, and no cage. Use the camera you already own.