The thing that upsets me about this is that there’s a way to basically post photospheres to Google maps. So in distant locations where there’s interesting features (far away from a road) you can do a photosphere and essentially make it public on maps, so anyone can experience that location from anywhere in the world anytime they want.

Google maps generally only has “Street view” that’s provided and almost all other location ground-based view is a submission by someone.

This will sharply end the ability for people to add more of that or simply update any that already exist.