GoPro we have a problem! In fact, it’s a problem we have had since the release of the original GoPro Max. Your software (GoPro Player) won’t retain GPS data when you export 360 files! This means us GoPro Max and Max 2 owners can’t update Google Street View (as the converted files have no GPS data embedded, and Google won’t accept .360 uploads).
Now this strikes me as strange as anyone who’s owned a GoPro Hero Fusion knows it was actually quite easy to update Google Street View (well, the process was easy, it just wasn’t quick or particularly stable). In fact, there’s street views all around Portland and bits of Oregon (and some remote parts of Alaska) that have been updated courtesy of my GoPro Fusion.
When the GoPro Max was released, we were all under the impression that we would quickly and easily (and reliably) be able to update Google Street View with it. This was not the case. The software (GoPro Player) point blank refused up export video footage with GPS data in it in a Windows environment (although those using a MAC had the option). Of course there were all sorts of excuses by GoPro as to why this wasn’t possible and we just had to live with it.
Some of the more tech savy people eventually figured out a way to extract GPS data from the .360 files, reencode the 360 files to .mp4 files, then embed the extracted gps data into the mp4 files using command line interface tools only (and if you’re confused by that paragraph, there’s no way you would have been able to manage to do this yourself!).
But good news folks, the release of the Max 2 would finally fix all of that right? Well ….. no! After 6 years of waiting for a Max 2, GoPro STILL couldn’t figure out how to give us GPS embedded files in a Windows Environment. Here’s the kicker, they even broke the option for MAC users.
So it looks like now in 2026, we still can’t update Google street view with our GoPro cameras without having to use overly complicated command line tools, right? Well happily… WRONG! Not only can we update Google Street View with our cameras, we can also update Mapillary too. In fact, a very nice gentleman by the monikor “The Wizard BC” took it upon himself to do what GoPro engineers and software specialists couldn’t do, he created some easy to use (and dare I say quick) software that allows anyone with a PC and Max or Max 2 camera to update Google Street View. Not only that, the software is FREE! (although I reckon he should put a donate button on there!).
Want to know more? Then watch my review and complete tutorial of this amazing software and have fun updating Google Street View! This works for both the Max and Max 2 cameras!
*Disclaimer. Although I mention that this software is easy to use, it really does depend on your technical ability to use a mouse, pc, and Max camera. I mean, I’m not responsible if there’s a power cut in your house and you start saying “Well that was just false advertising, you never mentioned I would be required to have electricity!”. Well I mean, having electricity to operate your electronics is just common sense really. So when I say “easy”, I mean it as “relatively easy based upon my own limited success trying to find ways to update Google Street View without the use of this software”. And if you think this is a rather silly disclaimer to add, you’d be dead right, but this is what you get for seeing small print at the end of an article and thinking to yourself “Well this will be worth reading!”. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, but either way, I hope that at least “SOMEONE” finds this amusing.
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