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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. The big news by prostoalex · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    I read that article yesterday. Closer to the second half of the article, did you see that OQO is shipping ? Wow, finally off the vaporware list.

    The specs of 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD, USB 1.1, 802.11b, XP Pro, 5'' LCD are nice, but $2000 price tag is a bit high for what's supposed to be a PDA killer.

  2. Refreshing! Non-tinfoil-hat submitter. by tsadi · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "Time to hang out the "Hi, Mom!" signs.

    It's quite refreshing seeing a story comment submitted by someone with a positive outlook on issues like these - instantaneous "tin-foil hat" reactions are starting to get boring already.