Google Maps Streetview function... WOW!
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I just saw this today myself. I hope they do more cities soon. I wonder if this is the kind of thing they'd take submissions for, like buildings in the 3d Warehouse?
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How long will it be before Google is walking through my living room. Wow.
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Not in my town it's not! (He says with a southern draw)
At least not yet.
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Obviously Google is (still) concentrating on bigger US cities only. Even SU is useless when there are extremely blurry images of vast areas - including quite big towns/cities, too. My place looks like a meadow with flowers (just some colour spots I mean) and you can hardly tell it's a city - therefore I made an image overlay (of only the historic centre) for myself to at least be able to navigate around:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=669645You can turn off the overlay to see how blurry it is actually. No way those street views will be available at most of the places soon!
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Gaieus,
Take a look at Amsterdam in Google Earth and you will see they don't only concentrate on the US.
Google has created about 170.000 3D volumes, almost the whole city.
Only a few are detailed, yet. Now dutch SUppers can start becoming pro's in photo-matching.
I am curious how many years it will take before all those volumes really look like homes, offices and so on.Greetings,
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OK, Ton, I may have expressed myself less precisely than intended - by "concentrating" I was to mean that putting bigger emphasis on the US than other places. I also heard (not checked yet) that there are a whole tot of places in Japan full of 3D buildings by Google.
I haven't really surfed too much lately - maybe I should for GE seems to be "developing" faster than I thought before.
Thanks for the tip though; I haven't been to Amsterdam for more than a year now!
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Jeff:
@unknownuser said:
How long will it be before Google is walking through my living room. Wow.
Here are some other 'fun' finds:
http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/06/01/street-view-roundup/ -
Hehe... Paul, fortunately I live on the third (and fourth and fifth) floor. Hopefully they won't fly over the streets, too, to take shots of my naked butt when I get up skratching it in the morning...
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