Upload pano image with heading and gps using street View Publish API won't work

Question

I'm trying to upload spherical images on street view using Publish Api. Upload of image data and place association works well, but whenever i try to upload heading and gps position data to the image server responds "OK" but then no heading nor position were associated to the image.

Here is the php code i use for the last step of info upload, i really don't know where i am wrong.

$data['uploadReference']['uploadUrl']=$upload_url;
$data['pose']['heading']=$heading_north;      
$data['pose']['latLngPair']=$latLngPair;    
$data['captureTime']['seconds']=time();    
$data['places']['placeId']=$placeid; 

$data_string = json_encode($data); 


$ch = curl_init('https://streetviewpublish.googleapis.com/v1/photo?key='.$_GOOGLE_API['api_key']);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");                             
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);     
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(                                     
  'authorization: Bearer '.$_GOOGLE_API['access_token'],
  'Content-Type: application/json',                                             
  'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string))                                     
);                                                                                                                   
$result = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

EDIT:

I've implemented the second step as suggested but nothing changes.. Curl response still doesn't contains any error..

$ch = curl_init('https://streetviewpublish.googleapis.com/v1/photo/'.$photo_id.'?key='.$_GOOGLE_API['api_key'].'&updateMask=pose.heading');                                                                      
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");                                                                     
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);                                                                      
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(                                                                          
        'authorization: Bearer '.$_GOOGLE_API['access_token'],
        'Content-Type: application/json',                                                                                
        'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string))                                                                       
    );                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
$json_response=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
echo $json_response;

EDIT2: this procedure works but google apis are slow and edited data will show up in minutes..

EDIT3 (SOLVED): GET photos (list) has some chache issue. to get the correct value just updated you need to request GET photo (single) to force an effective cache update.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 31 '17 at 14:48

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Try to set the values in a second step with photo.update. Don't forget to set the updateMask for the values.

answered Aug 31 '17 at 14:48

Thomas

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I've implemented the second step as suggested but nothing changes.. see edit in main question – recursio Sep 01 '17 at 13:45
How do you check the pose data? With a photo.get request? – Thomas Sep 01 '17 at 14:02
I check data by a GET photos request to get a list of photos and associated data. – recursio Sep 01 '17 at 14:15
image metadata has now changed to a configuration i've previusly uploaded.. is it only so slow to apply changes maybe? – recursio Sep 01 '17 at 14:21
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It depends. Sometimes the changes show up in 5 minutes, sometimes it takes 24 hrs. Occasionally the changes are even lost, and you need to submit it again. – Thomas Sep 04 '17 at 08:29
So google publish api is slow and unstable: cool! I noticed also that my last changes sometimes show up after i submit a new change and then i have to submit another change to see the last one. This "feature" makes the api unusable and this is very sad to me. – recursio Sep 04 '17 at 08:45

Upload pano image with heading and gps using street View Publish API won't work

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