360° Map of the Nuremberg Area from 1581

Prologue: I originally planned to publish this blog post during the LGM 2026 in Nürnberg. Sadly, however, the image from the museum's object catalogue is under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, so I was not allowed to use it to create a VR panorama. Fortunately, however, the museum has given me permission today to use it under a CC0 1.0 license.

At the Germanische Nationalmuseum, I discovered this 360° map of the Nuremberg area from 1581. I just had to convert this 360° round image into a panorama for VR glasses, especially as it is the oldest one I have ever seen – it is almost 500 years old!

https://objektkatalog.gnm.de/objekt/La140

 

First, I removed the decorations in the corners and cleaned up the image. Then, using the workflow described in this old tutorial, I created an equirectangular 360° panorama. Finally, I added metadata with ExifTool to enable Google Photos and other panorama viewers to detect it as a 360° panorama. 

 

The embedded A-Frame I used some time is no longer working. If anyone knows how to fix it, please comment below. (https://dablogter.blogspot.com/2020/01/how-to-integrate-360-panorama-with.html)

As quick fix, you can view the image as 360° panorame in Google Photos here: 
https://photos.app.goo.gl/XZL9CuTQWDu7dZr8A

Standort: 90 Nürnberg, Deutschland

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