Is Your Business Eligible for a Google Street View 3D Tour? (What Actually Qualifies)
Short answer: if customers can walk into your location, you almost certainly qualify. The real questions are the edge cases — homes, offices, gated venues — so let's go through them honestly.
Eligible: public-facing business locations
Google's "See inside" experience exists for brick-and-mortar places the public visits. If your business has a verified Google Business Profile and a physical address customers come to, a Street View tour can be published to it:
- Restaurants, cafés, bars, breweries
- Shops, boutiques, showrooms, galleries
- Gyms, studios, salons, spas
- Hotels, B&Bs, wedding and event venues
- Dental, medical, veterinary and professional offices
- Attractions — escape rooms, bowling alleys, museums, golf clubs
Not eligible: private homes and real-estate listings
A house for sale isn't a public business location, so residential interiors don't get published to Google Maps. That's not a loss — listing tours belong where buyers look: the MLS, Zillow and your marketing. Same capture, different destination. (Details on the Real Estate page.)
The gray areas, case by case
- Business inside a mall or office building: eligible — the tour attaches to your verified profile. The capture of shared corridors may need the property manager's consent.
- By-appointment businesses (medspa, design studio, private gym): eligible if the profile is verified at that address; the "public-facing" bar is about customers visiting, not walk-in traffic.
- Schools, daycares, healthcare with privacy concerns: technically possible, but think it through — interiors where children or patients are present raise real privacy questions. Often the better play is a controlled Matterport tour on your own website showing selected areas only.
- Secure or sensitive facilities: don't publish — use private documentation instead. We do a lot of that work.
- Outdoor-heavy venues (golf clubs, gardens, campuses): eligible and underused — the Pro3's LiDAR captures outdoors in full sun, so grounds and buildings join one tour.
The Trusted Photographer question, answered honestly
You'll still find providers advertising the "Google Trusted Photographer" badge. The formal program has been discontinued — nobody can sell you the badge today, and we won't pretend to. What to check instead: does the provider publish through Street View Studio, do they shoot linked high-resolution panoramas (not phone spheres), and can you open their live tours? Here are ours.
What you need before the scan
- A verified Google Business Profile at your address (free — business.google.com).
- An hour or two for the capture, scheduled around your hours.
- That's it. Publishing, linking and the technical steps are our job — here's the full process.
Frequently asked questions
Is my business eligible for a Google Street View 3D tour?
If you have a physical, public-facing location customers visit — a shop, restaurant, gym, salon, office, venue — almost certainly yes. The tour publishes to your verified Google Business Profile.
Do private homes qualify for Google Street View tours?
No. Residential interiors and real-estate listings can't be published to Google Maps — a home isn't a public business location. For listings, the Matterport tour lives on the MLS, Zillow and your marketing instead.
Is the Google Trusted Photographer program still active?
The formal "Street View Trusted" badge program has been discontinued. Publishing walkthroughs via Street View Studio still works — what matters now is the photographer's gear, publishing experience and live portfolio, not a retired badge.
My business is inside a mall or shared building — can it still get a tour?
Usually yes. The tour attaches to your verified Business Profile, so a suite inside a larger building works fine. Shared common areas may need the property manager's okay for the capture itself.