# Mapillary detects 360 pictures when, in fact, they are just normal photos, just cropped

**URL:** <https://forum.mapillary.com/t/mapillary-detects-360-pictures-when-in-fact-they-are-just-normal-photos-just-cropped/6186>\
**Category:** Contributing and equipment\
**Created:** [July 1, 2022, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/mapillary-detects-360-pictures-when-in-fact-they-are-just-normal-photos-just-cropped/6186 "2022-07-01T08:13:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@Marco](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/Marco)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/mapillary-detects-360-pictures-when-in-fact-they-are-just-normal-photos-just-cropped/6186/1 "2022-07-01T08:13:13Z")

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Hi!  
I’ve cropped all the images of one sequence before uploading it to Mapillary because they contained the car dashboard; the original size of each photo is 4000x300 and the cropped one is 4000x2000 (I didn’t touch the Exif data); the sequence is still being processed but the website shows that it wrongly detects that they are 360 photos while, in reality, they are just “normal” photos with 2:1 width/height ratio.

The sequence ID is: YBLW2cXkNDtumZJKwIyqoP  
One photo ID: 1038172710422915  
Here is a [Mapillary link](https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=1038172710422915) to that photo

Here is a picture showing the problem:

 ![mapillary false 360 photos cropped](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/mapillary/original/3X/e/9/e98f29197c510a39e5fdb78247af2abf0b592ea4.png)

I still have both the original and the cropped photos; what should I do?

Kind regards,  
Marco.

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**Author:** ![southglos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@southglos](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/southglos)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/mapillary-detects-360-pictures-when-in-fact-they-are-just-normal-photos-just-cropped/6186/2 "2022-07-03T09:46:45Z")

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I also crop the full frame from my front cameras to remove car bonnet and excess sky (to 4056×2280 in my case). The 2:1 ratio seems to be a special case that triggers processing as a spherical image; just crop to something slightly different (e.g. 4000×1920) instead.

I suspect you’ll need to delete the uploaded sequence, re-crop, and re-upload.

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**Author:** ![Marco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@Marco](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/Marco)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/mapillary-detects-360-pictures-when-in-fact-they-are-just-normal-photos-just-cropped/6186/3 "2022-07-03T10:00:01Z")

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OK, thanks for your reply 🙂

I’ve submitted the delete request and when it’s accepted, I will try another upload with a different size ratio.

UPDATE: I’ve re-uploaded those sequences after cropping the original photos to 4000x1990 and the result seems so far correct; thanks again for your help!