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engine

3:51 pm on Jun 8, 2012 (gmt 0)

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How to annoy your neighbours!

Create Your Own Street View [news.cnet.com]
As Google takes Street View off-road with its new Trekker backpacks, German company Streetview Technology is taking the mapping technology in yet another new direction -- DIY terrain.

That's right, with "DIY streetview," people can create their own versions of Google's popular, unpopular, and sometimes artsy high-tech atlas.

johnhh

8:57 pm on Jun 8, 2012 (gmt 0)

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Love one - how much ?

As long as they don't give them to the Inland Revenue !

Um how long to the trademark dispute ?

ergophobe

10:58 pm on Jun 8, 2012 (gmt 0)

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Funny, but suddenly this year I see so many cars and motorcycles driving around with video cams attached to helmets/roofs - it seems to be the "in" thing.

ken_b

11:29 pm on Jun 8, 2012 (gmt 0)

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I just drove from Chicago, IL to Flagstaff, AZ with a video camera recording the whole drive.

Now if only I could remember why I did that....

:)

incrediBILL

12:40 am on Jun 9, 2012 (gmt 0)

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I could use this and walk all the halls in our condos so you could get the inside view right up to the peep hole.

Wouldn't that be fun!

The upside is that on a server farm somewhere there will be a complete visual record for anthropological aliens that might ultimately visit the ruins of our planet with a copy of what the planet looked like right before Armageddon. Assuming they can find any strands of viable DNA left in the rubble they'll know how to it's supposed to look when it's reassembled.

ergophobe

1:53 am on Jun 9, 2012 (gmt 0)

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Now if only I could remember why I did that....


I wish you could. I've been wondering why people would take on such a monumental video editing project or, alternatively, subject their friends to a video night that included hours of driving footage.

ken_b

2:05 am on Jun 9, 2012 (gmt 0)

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I wish you could.
I can, really.

The videos are a memory check, I also took 3,300+/- still images along the way. The videos are for those "didn't I see that?" moments.

No plans to inflict the full 60 or so hours on anyone else, well maybe.............. :)

lucy24

3:13 am on Jun 9, 2012 (gmt 0)

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"How was your vacation?"

"I don't know, I haven't got the pictures back yet."

piatkow

12:35 pm on Jun 9, 2012 (gmt 0)

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Funny, but suddenly this year I see so many cars and motorcycles driving around with video cams attached to helmets/roofs - it seems to be the "in" thing.

Around here the cars are recording parking violations.

ergophobe

4:56 pm on Jun 11, 2012 (gmt 0)

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Around here the cars are recording parking violations.


Around here they're taking images of El Capitan and Half Dome. Sort of makes sense, but nonstop for hours? I wonder how many go back and view them and see the bears they didn't see live!


"How was your vacation?"
"I don't know, I haven't got the pictures back yet."


Or how about this: "I can't throw away my pictures. Those are my memories."

All of this makes me think that we are psychologically preparing ourselves for the implants.

The leadoff story that engine started with, though, is something else. It's all about creating a view that can then be custom annotated and shared. I imagine that it could have some useful commercial/industrial applications - navigating large factory complexes, large resort complexes, etc where publicly available street views will be black holes