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New project aims to combine Flickr, Google Earth, and "spatial location"
The goal is to eventually create a service that basically mixes something like Flickr with Google Earth, enabling users to view and post photos within their virtual environment. Flickr currently allows for geotagging, but viewing the pictures within their environment adds tons of more fun to the idea.
Perhaps Flickr should consider expanding its photo services instead of adding video, which it is trying to do right now, since Flickr users seem to hate the presence of moving pics on the Yahoo owned site. It seems a partnership with Viewfinder and Google Earth would be a better move, and -- since Yahoo's busy intermingling with all sorts of companies right now -- why not?
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abdul said 11:11AM on 4-10-2008
Looks like a poor version of Photosynth to me...
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Roy said 11:34AM on 4-10-2008
agreed
zkam said 3:34PM on 4-10-2008
It appears that Microsoft has put the Photosynth technology into Virtual Earth now. Goto maps.live.com, choose 3d on the map and zoom in to a city (once the necessary plugins are loaded). You can now click on Bird's Eye View, and this type of overlay occurs. (As you move the mouse around the map, different polygon areas are hilighted, indicating that there is a bird's eye photo for that area, just like in the aerial examples in the above video.) At the moment it's pretty slow but definitely very cool.
Note: I am not a MS fanboi, nor do I have any affiliation to them. I just thought it's pretty neat technology.
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Samuel Lago said 1:00PM on 4-12-2008
The thing I reall like about this website is that it speaks for the people, really, I love the sum up at the end. Its hopeless (ahoo's mapping service) when Google has such a presence in one area other should work with it - rather than against.
This service looks very smooth and professional, its obviously a winner but I have to wonderhere in England with our problem of "clone cities" and how every shopping centers can look the same its just as well that GPS is going to make more of an appearence in products from >2009
I am really impressed with American universities in the technology sector, this is a great project. I hope they make it.
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