Smile for the Google 3D mapping truck
There is a surreptitious war taking place right outside your door and you don’t even know its happening. Amazon’s A9 and Google are fighting over who will provide better photos of your front door:
Google plans to use trucks equipped with lasers and digital photographic equipment to create a realistic 3D online version of San Francisco, and eventually other major US cities.
The move would trump Amazon’s A9 service, which offers two-dimensional photos of buildings on US city streets.
The trucks would drive along every San Francisco street using the lasers to measure the dimensions of buildings, to create a 3D framework onto which digital photos can be mapped. This would complement the mostly top-down view of San Francisco available through Google’s Keyhole satellite photo application.
The goal is to create similar 3D online versions of other cities in the US and overseas.
We can’t wait for people to create the first 3D San Francisco quake level so that we can blow up the cross on Mt. Davidson.
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