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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. I call BS by SquierStrat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I call BS. That looks like any one of a thousand quonset huts on Camp Pendleton and other Marine Corps bases. How do I know that it isn't a picture of one of them?

    Also - wow, who cares.

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    Derek Greene
  2. How do they remove people? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Won't they capture 3d shots of people walking past or standing around?

    Does the software only account for 3d structures over a certain size?

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