Someone Sure Spent a Lot of Time Taking Photos

JonB

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So Google have just released a new mode for Google maps. "Street view".

It's very impressive, although one has to wander how many photos have been stitched together to make this happen!

See it in action here!
 
MS Live Maps just added 3D streets but to be honest googles approach is far better.

Wouldnt like to be the team taking the pics
 
We use this technology offshore for doing video surveys to save having to travel offshore all the time to look at stuff. Last job I was on, took them three months to survey the platform and must have totalled tens of thousands of photos.

Jokester
 
Raymond Lin said:
Then i must be thinking of Microsoft Live maps or Windows Live Local. My bad.

http://maps.live.com/

Search for Brighton, click on the little icon on the left and you can rotate !
Click to expand...


That's still just aerial photography though, check the google maps thing out, it's 360° panoramic photos taken on street level.
 
Thats pretty awesome. Must have taken a lot of time to take those photos.

It's good that you can move further and further down a street and the pictures are from further down the street and don't just default to the centre of the street or anything.
 
I must have missed a thread somewhere because I've only realised that google maps does traffic as well! In my defence I never really look at the US maps - only ever have need for the UK version, which has neither feature.

EDIT: Some of the London maps seem slightly more updated than last time I checked them aswell - looks like October (ish) 2006 to me.
 
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Well I know for a fact that Google are currently hunting for a UK Traffic information supplier to bring the traffic overlay to the UK ;)

As for other cities, you can got a few other major cities across the US, just Zoom out and you'll see them!
 
:eek: :eek:
one thing though, it seems like either the photos were taken very close together or they're using some technology that requires fewer photos.

Take a look at this thing I found:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...78041,-73.964563&cbp=1,21.7059807073956,0.5,0

notice the four runners on the left, then move backwards along the path and you'll see they barely move, if at all. Dunno how that works.

ah, obvious really. They must've mounted the camera on a vehicle. You can see how it even catches up to people on the path.
 
Still genius! now if they could incorporate it with Google earth it will be ace, the maps version takes ages to load for me, and sometimes with "image not found" or something and i get a grey block instead of a map.
 
yeh I'd imagine the pictures were taken at the same time that they had vans going around measuring the heights of buildings for google earth
 
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