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More Info on Google's 3D Maps

Posted by timothy on from the this-will-rock-for-directions dept.

Will Stewart writes "You have doubtless read that Silicon Valley Watcher reported on Google plans to use trucks equipped with lasers and digital photographic equipment to create a realistic 3D, online version of San Francisco and eventually other major US cities, but you may not have seen the picture of where the trucks are kept and Berkeley's unrelated research project and published technical research (PDF file)."

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  1. more pictures please by GreasyBloater · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can someone please acquire photos of the following items:

    - gas station used to fuel the trucks
    - hose used to clean the trucks
    - steel drums containing the trucks used oil

    These would be most (snort) valuable for my collection. (snort)

  2. .jpg already /.ed -- here's a lo-res mirror though by PeeAitchPee · · Score: 5, Funny

    and also for our Lynx-using folks . . .

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  3. Re:Some more info by Obiwan+Kenobi · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Screenshots really can't capture how amazing it is to freely move around a 3D world."

    Yeah, I tell you what though, I do this every day and it's the shit.