Connecting and using building data acquired from mobile devices

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored contents that cause one or more computing devices to perform automated operations, the automated operations including at least:

• obtaining linking information for a sequence of viewing locations associated with a structure that include at least one viewing location within an interior of the structure, wherein the linking information includes data that is generated as an acquisition device moves along a travel path between the viewing locations and that includes one or more images captured between each pair of successive viewing locations in the sequence;
• determining, by the one or more computing devices, and for one or more of the pairs of successive viewing locations in the sequence, relative positional information that includes at least a direction from a starting viewing location of the pair to an ending viewing location of the pair, including analyzing the linking information to model a portion of the travel path from the starting viewing location to the ending viewing location and using the modeled portion of the travel path as part of determining the direction;
• generating, by the one or more computing devices, and using the determined direction for each of the one or more pairs of successive viewing locations, information to link the starting viewing location for the pair to the ending viewing location for the pair, including generating a link for visual information associated with the starting viewing location for the pair that points toward the ending viewing location for the pair;
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• providing, by the one or more computing devices, information for display about the structure that includes the visual information associated with the starting viewing location of an indicated pair of the one or more pairs, and the generated link for the indicated pair.

A system, comprising:

• one or more hardware processors of one or more computing devices;
• and
• one or more memories with stored instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more hardware processors, cause the one or more computing devices to provide data representing a building, including:
• obtaining data for multiple recording locations associated with the building, including data that is recorded at each of the recording locations, and including visual linking information captured during movement between at least some of the recording locations;
• determining, for one or more pairs of recording locations, and based at least in part on analyzing the visual linking information, a direction from a starting recording location of the pair to an ending recording location of the pair;
• generating, for each of the one or more pairs of recording locations and using the determined direction for the pair, information to link the data recorded at the starting recording location for the pair to the data recorded for the ending recording location for the pair, including generating a link that points between the starting recording location for the pair and the ending recording location for the pair;
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• providing information for presentation about the building that includes data recorded at one or more of the recording locations and that includes at least one of the generated links.