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Technical notes
Slowhatch:
Bing is now counterpunching with the release of Bing Maps Explore Beta (here's Las Vegas). Silverlight is required. With the map in Auto mode, as you zoom in it changes from map to 3D modeling to Bird's Eye. Click the little blue man and their streetview, called streetside, is enabled; so far only the casino area is covered, but the resolution looks better than Google (which for some reason looks crummy in Vegas).
Slowhatch:
We've known that the producers like World Heritage sites. And we've known about the pano coverage (here and here, for example). Now it seems Google is using GE/streetview to get into the act.
puddin:
--- Quote from: Slowhatch on December 03, 2009, 10:47:11 PM ---We've known that the producers like World Heritage sites. And we've known about the pano coverage (here and here, for example). Now it seems Google is using GE/streetview to get into the act.
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This I like! :yes:
walkingpneumonia:
Seems to me that this DARPA challenge is sort of what the TAR detectives already do very well - only on a global scale.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/04/darpa.balloon.challenge/index.html[/
Instead of searching for red balloons and reporting their location we hunt for Phil! Maybe DARPA should study RFF!
Slowhatch:
Mapquest street view: follow the orange balloon (click 360 view). :colors
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