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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. Who gives a crap? by JPelorat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's a garage, ffs. Ooo, they keep the uberlasertrucks there, ooo! Go steal a piece of it and put it in a reliquary, then, ya freak.

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