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360° Street View Overview

Record with a 360° camera, export the video, drag it into RoadScope — nothing to install.

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360° Street View in RoadScope

RoadScope includes an integrated 360° street-level imagery system: you drive the corridor with a 360° camera on the vehicle, import the recording, and RoadScope turns it into a georeferenced sequence of panoramas you can step through in a viewer synchronized with the route map and your POI data.

What you need

  • A 360° camera. The Insta360 X5 (or X4/X3) is the recommended option; a GoPro MAX or Ricoh Theta also works as long as it produces a normal 360 video export.
  • Insta360 Studio — the free desktop app that comes with the camera (Windows or Mac). It exports the recording as a normal 360 video (.mp4).
  • A web browser. There is nothing to install, no keys to obtain and no command line.

    • The workflow in four steps

    1. Record — mount the camera, make sure GPS is on (pair the GPS Remote / Action Rod or the phone app), and record the drive in 360° video mode.

    2. Export — open the recording in Insta360 Studio and click Export → 360 video. Keep the default settings. This produces the "normal" 360 video: a wide .mp4 twice as long as it is tall. Do not choose Reframe or Flat video.

    3. Drag into RoadScope — open Import 360° survey (route card, Routes toolbar or the Import hub) and drop the exported .mp4 together with the camera's original recording file that ends in _00_.insv. RoadScope reads the GPS track from that file, so you do not need to produce a GPX file. A .gpx track from another device works too.

    4. Confirm and wait — check the name and frame spacing, click Start, and watch the progress bar. Frames are extracted and geotagged on RoadScope's servers; the survey appears on the map when it is done.

    File size

    Each video can be up to 16 GB through the browser. Large uploads resume automatically if the connection drops. For longer drives, split the recording into two or more clips in Insta360 Studio and import each clip as its own survey.

    If GPS is missing

    The Insta360 X5 only writes a GPS track when it is paired with the GPS Remote, the Action Rod or the phone app. If the recording has no GPS, RoadScope tells you when it reads the file; you can then drop a .gpx track from a phone or GPS unit, or position the frames along a route you have already drawn in RoadScope (manual route timing).

    The Street View Viewer

    In the RoadScope map, click any segment of the route to open the 360° viewer at that location. The viewer is synchronized with the map — moving along the route updates the imagery, and clicking imagery jumps the map to that location.

    Advanced: Camera Bridge (platform administrators)

    Platform administrators processing very large batches on a dedicated Windows PC can still use the Camera Bridge service (see the Advanced section of the docs). Customers do not need it.