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Camera Vans To Photograph 50 Million Buildings

Posted by timothy on from the cat-detector-van dept.

dritan writes "A new van unveiled at CeBIT America is equipped with 50 digital cameras and takes pictures every 15 feet -- with the goal of photographing 50 million buildings in the country. These photos could be cross-referenced with aerial photographs so that law enforcement or insurance agencies can get overhead and street level views of the same location -- just by entering an address." Time to hang out the "Hi, Mom!" signs.

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  1. Cool Game Levels by RidiculousPie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Combined with mapping data can we make levels for our favourite games, with pictures of buildings true to life?

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  2. And yet, by Speare · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And yet, if I take pictures anywhere near a Federal building, subway tunnel or bridge, even from a public sidewalk, the goons will want to catalogue me as a potential threat.

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