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Google Enhances Street View With User Photos

Posted by kdawson on from the pick-your-point-of-view dept.

Google has launched a competitor or counterpart to Microsoft's Photosynth, which employs user-contributed photos of much-photographed sites to supplement the street-level view in an immersive way. Google's offering is called simply Navigate through User Photos, and unlike Photosynth — which requires Sliverlight and therefore is not available on Linux — is implemented in Flash. This YouTube video (also embedded at the link above) offers a quick tour of the new feature, which can use photos uploaded to Panoramico, Flickr, and Picasa.

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  1. Re:A whole lot of math by biryokumaru · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mine was "I hope no one tries to post a picture of the Korean War Memorial."

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  2. Your Facts Are Getting in the Way of His Agenda by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 4, Funny

    Note to Slashdot Editors: Apps that avoid the use of Flash are Less Evil than Apps which do not run in Linux.

    And please, if you're ever unclear on any of this Good/Evil stuff, don't hesitate to ask me.

  3. Re:Why this beats Microsoft by sopssa · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good luck trying to use these features on your iPad. So much for multiplatform.

  4. Why the Java hate? by tonywestonuk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why not do this as an Applet, not Flash.... After all, Java is FOSS, and works on all platforms. Applets launch fast, (unless they have megabytes of Jars to load, though this problem is not just with Java).