Sunny. Cloudy. Partly cloudy
Sonya Savina

My interest addresses  the "bug hunt" in panoramas of Google Maps.Most often, the vulnerability of the technology for creating a 360 ° panorama manifests itself at the zenith - this is the point in relation to the given position of a person, where they need to look up to the sky - and they usually don’t,thus creating an unidentified zone.

To correct such errors,instructions for "completing the sky" exist, in which the main method is transplanting a piece of the sky from other donor panoramas.The catalog of such skies on stock sites includes several folders: "Sunset", "Cloudy", "Partly Cloudy", "Sunny".

"Sunset. Cloudy. Partly cloudy. Sunny” is an archive of skies with errors  I discovered while strolling through Google map. I chose the ones where the authors of the panoramas chosed not to correct, thereby leaving a trace in the virtual copy of space that cannot be found in the same place in reality. A series of life-sized screenshots are ordered chronologically and cover different months and weather conditions for several years until the closure of the Russian office of Google in 2022, after which the street panoramas stopped updating.

The advent of spherical cameras and special applications for creating panoramas using a conventional phone has transformed Street View from a collection of photographes to a common documentary archive. While corporate shots are technically smooth along with automatic face blurring, 360° panoramas added by users can be deprived of anonymity, and at the same time filled with more manifest failures and errors.