An interesting post from Tim who is a GeoWeb 2006 in Vancouver. Great new blog by the way..
Tim notes comments from Microsoft about their plans to create 3D city models in a “different” way to Google. Just speculating but maybe the different approach its something to do with the fact that Microsoft also own a gaming platform ?
oops. Here’s the link: http://fantom-planet.blogspot.com/2005/08/scoff-if-microsoft-bought-esri-mimes.html
Here’s the link to the project: http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
To see pixels from photos sprinkled around a 3D world is wonderful, very impressive, truly new. They are not yet telling people how much metadata each photo needs: just a rough lat/long at one end of the scale, or a highly accurate orientation model at the other.
Reminds me of my own SnapMap: http://www.snapmap.com/
Ed Parsons is the Geospatial Technologist of Google. However edparsons.com is written by Ed Parsons, not Google so the views expressed in this blog are mine and not necessarily those of my employer.
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