Posts Tagged ‘Streetview’

  • Are ski slopes streets? Google says YES, they are.

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    We know Google mounts car with 360 degrees cameras and GPS to show us streets. We know Google also mounts bicycles with 360 degrees cameras and GPS to show us streets where cars are not allowed to drive. But now Google also mounts snowmobiles with 360 degrees cameras and GPS to show us ski slopes in the mountains.

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    Rign on time, only several days before the official start of the winter olympics Google publishes street view images from Whistler Mountain and several other ski resorts around Vancouver.

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    Quote from the Google Blog:

    The Street View team’s constant experimenting yielded a snowmobile decked out with cameras to capture slope-level imagery of several runs on Whistler Blackcomb Mountains. The view from the top of 7th Heaven chairlift on Blackcomb and from the peak of Whistler are among my favourites, as are the top of the Dave Murray downhill, where the men’s alpine skiing events will start, and the Peak 2 Peak gondola. (That’s Whistler’s new feat of engineering which takes skiers and riders from Whistler to Blackcomb.) With the Street View trike, we’ve also covered Whistler Village and Whistler Creekside at the mountains’ bases.

    The Google Maps team also launched a new site, including all street view areas of ski slopes, for the Olympic Winter Games: www.google.com/games10

    The only question left: Where else will be StreetView and do we need all this imagery?

    Critical Statement: The next thing announced are indoor StreetViews in stores and shopping centers. Again a playground for marketing. I hope at least some places on planet earth will left blank on the StreetView Map.

    [http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/02/street-view-hits-slopes-at-whistler.html]

  • Google Streetview not available for German cities yet – but there are alternatives

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    Google Streetview cars have been seen in several German cities for a while now but the Google service is not online yet. The same is true for Austria, where streetview cars are seen in Vienna and Salzburg. But there are several (not so well known) alternatives public available providing the same kind of information. I have posted about NORC an eastern European company which have published streetview imagery for several eastern European countries and also for Vienna.

    Recently I come across an other service which provides streetview imagery is sightwalk. Unfortunately only the city Köln is fully included other cities like Berlin, Munich, Bonn, Hamburg and Düsseldorf will follow in the 2nd quater of 2009. Sightwalk uses flash technology to visualize their street panoramas. There is also an possibility to embed the service in your own web application. Instructions can be found on their faq page.

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    The functionality of sightwalk includes some additional features to Google’s streetview service. Navigation is easy can is done via mouse movements. With green arrows, appearing on the screen, you can move along a road. It also includes pedestrian walks. There is also an interesting functions which allows you to navigate to the next POI (e.g. cinema, bus stop, …) or oyu can highlight interesting places for tourists. The map visualisation is done with support of Open Street Map. All in all this is a nice alternative to Google Streetview especially interesting for tourists, who want to become familiar with their next travel destination.

    [site: http://www.sightwalk.de]

  • Streetview is covering Europe

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    More and more parts of Europe are covered with Streetlevel imagery in Google Maps. The last update effected several cities in Great Britain. In following countries is Google’s StreetView available.

    • Great Britain
    • Spain
    • France
    • Italy
    • The Netherlands

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  • StreetView available for Vienna, Austria

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    StreetView is now available for the Austrian capital Vienna. But it is not the original StreetView service by Google Maps. The Service is provided by eXtreme Soft Group S.R.L. a private company seated in Bucharest. Their main task is to provide “street-level-imagery”.

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    The web service allowing its visitors to do virtual walks through cities in Central and Eastern Europe. The images provided to the visitors are taken based on a proprietary technology of generating views that are geo-referenced in the street. The technology consists in using cars equipped with a proprietary panoramic photographing device based on 10 cameras, correlated with a Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS).

    The current coverage:

    • Romania – www.norc.ro – Bucharest, Ploiesti and Prahova Valley, Constanta and the Seaside, Brasov and Poiana Brasov, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Iasi, Sibiu, Pitesti, Targoviste
    • Austria – www.norc.at – Vienna
    • The Czech Republic – www.norc.cz – Prague, Brno
    • Slovakia – www.norc.sk – Bratislava, Trnava, Kosice, Banska-Bystrica, Zilina, Nitra
    • Poland – www.norc.pl – Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, Wroclaw
    • Russia – www.mappi.ru – Moscow

    Link for Austria: www.norc.at

  • Nearly area-wide streetview – but only in the USA

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    Google has updated StreetView data for the USA. According to Google the update doubles the coverage of StreetView information in the United States. As you can see in the image the coverage for the USA is quite impressive. Also the coverage for Australia and New Zealand is very good.

    The current coverage of the European StreetView information by contrast is still very poor. Beside the Tour de France track of 2008, some cities in France, Spain and Italy you will not find any places where StreetView is available. StreetView cars were seen all over Europe, therefore it can be assumed that there will be a massive update of StreetView data in Europe as well.

    [via Googlewatchblog]

  • Improved Map Interface for Google Maps

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    A new working experience with Google Maps – now harmonized with the Google Earth Navigation Interface.

    Finally there is a new way dealing with streetview, the old one was really cumbersome. Some new features are exlained through following video:

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  • StreetView Australia Ad Video

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    I know, I writing a lot about Google, and sometimes it seems like advertisment for them. But Google Maps such a smart web app and recently StreetView is available in Japan and Australia. This funny video shows how to use streetview.

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  • Could It be that StreetView is comming to Austria?

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    According to GWB a StreetView car was seen in Vienna. Maybe we can soon walk through Vienna virtually. Of course the faces of people and country code plates will be blurred to ensure privacy. But there are still some criticism about this service. Until now this message was not confirmed with a photo. So we will see when StreetView is coming to Austria.

    In France Streetview was already launched and StreetView cars are seen in several other European cities including Milan, Berlin, etc.

    [via GWB]

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  • EveryScape – StreetView inside buidings

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    EveryScape is a web service similar to Google StreetView but it allows also indoor navigation. Therefore it is possible to navigate though the streets of an city and go inside buildings along the city. Of course only public buildings are recorded.

    EveryScape uses Adobe Flash technology for visualisation.

    Excerpt from their homepage:
    “EveryScape’s patented HyperMedia Technology Platform allows anyone with a browser to experience a first-person, eye-level walk down a scaped street, gathering and sharing information on businesses and attractions, entering a store and shopping, checking the menu and reviews of a restaurant or the upcoming performances of a theater.”
    Currently EveryScape is in beta and parts of following cities are included:
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  • Google Streetview in Germany

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    Google is planning a german edition of “StreetView”. For “StreetView” pictures from street scenes of all major cities are taken. One major issue for StreetView in Europe is privacy. The European version will definitifely include blurring mechnaisms for faces and code plate, as it was introduced in the USA.

    The german newspaper Focus has interviewed Peter Fleisch from Google. He said that, they are en route around Europe and want to come to Germany. Furthermore the magaize reported that Deutsche Post is working on a simmilar project. This was accredited by Deutsche Post, and they are working on a picture database for german cities.

    “Die Post möchte die Bilder unter anderem für ihre Adressdatenbank statistisch auswerten und einen virtuellen Stadtbesuch anbieten”, teilte eine Sprecherin der Datenschutzbeauftragten Nordrhein-Westfalens mit.

    [via winfuture.de]

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