A location can carry a 360 photo (a photosphere). When it does, its card shows an immersive photo visitors can drag to look around in every direction, with a small 360 badge in the corner.
What a photosphere is
A photosphere is an equirectangular photo: one wide, flat 2:1 image that wraps into a full sphere. It is the format a 360 camera exports, or that your phone's panorama or photosphere mode produces. Mapvera projects it so the visitor can spin around and look up and down.
The 360 photo replaces the Main image in the card's photo slot. When you clear it, the card falls back to the flat Main image again, so you can keep both on a location and the 360 simply takes priority.
Add one to a location
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Open the location
In the Landmarks tab, expand the location you want to add a 360 photo to.
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Find the 360 field
Below Main image you will see a field labelled 360° photo.
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Upload or paste a URL
Click Upload to pick an equirectangular file, or paste an existing image URL straight into the field.
Only use genuine equirectangular (2:1) images. A normal flat photo will look stretched and wrong when dragged around.
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Preview it
Open the location's card in the preview. You should see the 360 badge and be able to drag to look around.
Resolution matters
Because only a slice of the sphere is on screen at once, a photosphere needs plenty of pixels. Upload a large image: the upload keeps up to 4096px wide (roughly a 4K panorama, 4096 by 2048). A photo downscaled to a small size looks fine as a flat picture but goes soft the moment someone looks around, so start from the highest resolution you have.