EveryScape: Google Street View killer?

by Brad Linder Jun 13th 2007

If you were impressed with Google Street View, you ain't seen nothing yet. EveryScape is a new service set to launch this fall that presents a realistic 3D view of streetscapes and public places by putting together information from 2D photos.

You can navigate through the streetscape by clicking on green arrow buttons. Where information is available, you can also click on icons to find out what buildings you're looking at, which is a nice feature. There's a sample streetscape of the area around San Francisco's Union Square up on EveryScape's website. Here's a little screengrab we did (the graphics are actually a bit more fluid than the video suggests, but our video capture software prefers low framerates.

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Based on the sample, the images appear to be more detailed than Google Street View, with no visible gaps between images.

EveryScape plans to add more cities, starting with Boston, New York and Seattle. While the streetscapes will be photographed by EveryScape photographers, the site also plans to use photos submitted by users to flesh out their offering

[via O'Reilly radar]

Tags: everyscape, google street view, GoogleStreetView, street view, streetscape, StreetView

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

xlerate said 3:04PM on 6-13-2007

Spell check.

Google Steet?

Brandon said 6:47PM on 6-13-2007

If you think that is cool, look at what Google is licensing from Immersive Media. Left click and drag on the steaming video to look around in real"streaming"time. These camera systems are real, we installed one in SmarTruck3.

http://demos.immersivemedia.com/index_directorfound.php?scene=NY

Rob said 4:57PM on 6-15-2007

Signed up to be a "Scape-artist". Should be interesting to see how this works.

krishna rao said 8:40AM on 7-02-2007

very nice and stunning

GeoTrotter said 9:07AM on 7-13-2007

I added here the most amazing Street View.

geotrotter said 10:16AM on 8-08-2007

I added here some amazing Street View from the last update (08/2007).

geotrotter said 10:34AM on 8-08-2007

I added here the most amazing Street View from the last update (08/2007): http://www.geo-trotter.com/cat-street-view.php

dave said 10:40PM on 8-21-2007

i expect google to be better, beside everyscape there is another google street view killer.

http://www.mapjack.com/FlashTest/Index.html

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