Selecting time-distributed panoramic images for display

A system comprising one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices being configured to:

• access a plurality of panoramic images, each panoramic image being associated with multi-dimensional location information defined in at least two dimensions, a one-dimensional (1D) snap location along a path at least partially traveled during image capture, three dimensional (3D) geometry data corresponding to a surface of an object depicted in the panoramic image, and time information identifying when the panoramic image was captured;
• for a first panoramic image of the plurality, query the plurality of panoramic images and determine a second panoramic image of the plurality such that a second 1D snap location associated with the second panoramic image is closest to a first 1D snap location associated with the first panoramic image relative to 1D locations associated with others of the plurality of panoramic images, at least a portion of a geographic area depicted in the first panoramic image is also depicted in the second panoramic image, and first time information associated with the first panoramic image and second time information associated with the second panoramic image indicate that the first panoramic image and the second panoramic image were captured on different days;
• select the second panoramic image;
• determine whether the second 1D snap location is within a threshold range of the first 1D snap location;
• and
• provide the first panoramic image for display with an indication that the second panoramic image is available when the second 1D snap location is within the threshold range of the first 1D snap location.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium on which computer readable instructions of a program are stored, the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method, the method comprising:

• accessing a plurality of panoramic images, each of the plurality of panoramic images being associated with multi-dimensional location information defined in at least two dimensions, one-dimensional (1D) snap location along a path at least partially traveled during image capture, three dimensional (3D) geometry data corresponding to a surface of an object depicted in the panoramic image, and time information identifying when the panoramic image was captured;
• for a first panoramic image of the plurality, querying the plurality of panoramic images and determining a second panoramic image of the plurality such that a second 1D snap location associated with the second panoramic image is closest to a first 1D snap location associated with the first panoramic image relative to 1D snap locations associated with others of the plurality of panoramic images, at least a portion of a geographic area depicted in the first panoramic image is also depicted in the second panoramic image, and first time information associated with the first panoramic image and second time information associated with the second panoramic image indicate that the first panoramic image and the second panoramic image were captured on different days;
• selecting the second panoramic image;
• determining whether the second 1D snap location is within a threshold range of the first 1D snap location;
• and
• providing the first panoramic image for display with an indication that the second panoramic image is available when the second 1D snap location is within the threshold range of the first 1D snap location.