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Re: Virtual Earth Team - Streetlevel

sushovande — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:50:34 GMT

One word.
Awesome.

(I am too dazzled to say more)

posted by sushovande

Re: Virtual Earth Team - Streetlevel

billh — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:52:38 GMT

Thanks! I'll have to look at this one later when I get a chance.

P.S. I just wanted to be the first one to post here (instead of Zeo).

Edit: Well, I wasn't the first...but neither was Zeo.

posted by billh

Re: Virtual Earth Team - Streetlevel

darrenstraight — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:23:43 GMT

Been checking up on this for updates nearly all day, great to hear it's finaly up and running!

posted by darrenstraight

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erik_ — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:09:02 GMT

WHOW AMAZING!!!

But what happends when the pizza shop becomes another store or moves? How long will it take before it updates?

How do they got rid of all the privacy stuff, like number plates of cars and faces of people, etc.?

Btw. What is the key for using the gas thing that is lying in front, like the one they use in 2 fast 2 furious:)

posted by erik_

Re: Virtual Earth Team - Streetlevel

Zeo — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:34:38 GMT

billh wrote:

P.S. I just wanted to be the first one to post here (instead of Zeo).

Edit: Well, I wasn't the first...but neither was Zeo.

Well technically no I'm not the first....but in a way I beat C9 to posting on this concept.....

Check it out:
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=166485

posted by Zeo

Re: Virtual Earth Team - Streetlevel

yman — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:22:16 GMT

I think it is very cool, still rough around the edges but has the possibility of a bright future.

You should read some of the comments on Digg, bashing the product left right and center obviously. I cant wait to read the comments on Slashdot when they post it

I got so annoyed with the ignorant nature of the slashdot news, I removed it from my google home page

posted by yman

Re: Virtual Earth Team - Streetlevel

BryanF — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:07:04 GMT

This is cool. It would be great if, in the future, you could create "macros" of driving directions for a virtual driving/walking tour of an area. This would be great, for instance, for tourism agencies and realators. I could even see enthusists creating specialty tours -- "my favorite hang-outs" or something along those lines; when you start taking this technology across international boundaries, it would be a great way to get a taste of someplace far away.

Again, this is really cool. I can't wait to see how it evolves.

posted by BryanF

Re: Virtual Earth Team - Streetlevel

Rowan — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:48:06 GMT

Is it just me or is this thing very difficult to use? There seems to be a lot of misplaced images and the car keeps leeping over buildings causing me to lose my place. I'll stick to the bird's eye view for now.

I must commend the team for making this cross-browser friendly though, I was worried it wouldn't work in my favourite browser, especially since even Live Mail apparently doesn't work in my favourite browser.

posted by Rowan

Re: Virtual Earth Team - Streetlevel

Ian — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:58:42 GMT

The XBOX marketing people should get views from PGR3 behind a web interface like this, the 'virtual view' could just be an alternative layer to the street view.

(OK perhaps no real practical use, but a fun thing to do!)

posted by Ian

Re: Virtual Earth Team - Streetlevel

MikeSan — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:03:16 GMT

Cool! Do you have anything in place to protect privacy? Can license plates of cars in front of the camera van be read?

posted by MikeSan

Re: Virtual Earth Team - Streetlevel

Jim Boltz — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:19:47 GMT

I spent some time replying but when I got to the end couln't figure out how to enter it, Not all of your viewers have a PhD in Computer Science!!!!

posted by Jim Boltz

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Jim Boltz — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:30:06 GMT

my compliments. years ago a photographer shot individual pictures of buildings along a street and printed them in sequence. I shot the main street of Colonial Williamsburg with a panorama camera that shot three buildings at a time and xxxxxxxxx projected them with a timing motor through a filmstrip projector to create the illusion of traveling down the street. Williamsburg is so much like actually being back in Colonial times and so concentrated that it would make an excellent demo which could be done quickly and inexpensively. e n rpojected re

posted by Jim Boltz

Re: Virtual Earth Team - Streetlevel

dotnetjunkie — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:22:54 GMT

Well, I had this same idea 6 (!) years ago, and even made such a virtual trip through the center of the village where I live (for which I took the hundreds of photos myself, and sometimes together with some friends).

It's nice to see this happening on a larger scale now.

posted by dotnetjunkie

Re: Virtual Earth Team - Streetlevel

raptureboi — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:51:13 GMT

Hey Everyone. Here is an image of a reflection of the camera van off of a DHL truck.

Notice the plentitude of cameras on the top of the van. Kind of looks like an old ambulance!

Side A

http://tiles.preview.local.live.com/Striptiles/0230102033312312223/Strip_010722050958_5496_0_2.jpg

Side B

http://tiles.preview.local.live.com/Striptiles/0230102033312312223/Strip_010722050958_5496_0_3.jpg

posted by raptureboi

Re: Virtual Earth Team - Streetlevel

Antwerp — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:39:06 GMT

Although the work of the virtual earth team is quite impressive, I'm wondering why we, Europeans, get such a bad deal from MSFT.

On http://local.live.com Brussels, Belgium is just a dot (1 million inhabitants...)

On Google Earth I can almost see the cars in Brussels...

Peter, Antwerp (pop 500,000 - not a single street visible)
Belgium, Europe

posted by Antwerp