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Downtown as Never Seen Before
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| Orko |
This is not a drawing, nor is it from Google Maps. This is by Microsoft.
Now this is not your ordinary picture of downtown, as you can notice the buildings actually look like the real ones, with the proper shapes, colours, textures...etc. This goes one step beyond what google maps did, because Virtual Earth actually puts the shape AND texture on the building so you can navigate through the city.
They have pretty much all buildings in TO over a few stories tall, with their proper shapes and sizes. I was even able to find my low rise (3 floor) building!
If I had to guess, Microsoft is using its new acquisition Photosynth to put together models of the buildings from existing documentation (photos, satellite shots). It would be just too much work to try and gather new data on all those buildings for most major cities. Photosynth basically takes existing 2D pictures and builds a 3D model out of them, incredible stuff. For more info, please watch the video by following the previous link.
They do not have much data outside major cities, but for now its amazing just to go and fly around New York, Toronto, Miami... |
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| EvilTree |
| perfect simulator to plan terrorist attacks |
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| kotsy |
| quote: | Originally posted by EvilTree
perfect simulator to plan terrorist attacks |
LOL, ooooo
seriously though.. I already spend too much time on google maps looking at stuff.. here we go again. |
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| EvilTree |
| quote: | Originally posted by kotsy
LOL, ooooo
seriously though.. I already spend too much time on google maps looking at stuff.. here we go again. |
I'm not joking.
You can get detailed and accurate maps of military installations off of Google earth. (looking up Area 51 was fun)
Although I did have fun trying to figure out where Kim Jong Il's palace was in Pyong Yang |
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| emonster4life |
| this is old |
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by EvilTree
perfect simulator to plan terrorist attacks |
that was a good LOL |
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| kotsy |
| quote: | Originally posted by EvilTree
I'm not joking.
You can get detailed and accurate maps of military installations off of Google earth. (looking up Area 51 was fun)
Although I did have fun trying to figure out where Kim Jong Il's palace was in Pyong Yang |
do you have a direct link to area 51? |
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| EvilTree |
| quote: | Originally posted by kotsy
do you have a direct link to area 51? |
no... I checked for this like 2 yrs ago |
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by kotsy
do you have a direct link to area 51? |
CLick |
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| Theresa |
| Holy e. I was able to zoom in and see my roomies car in his parking spot at our building. That is incredible. |
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| eRRaTiK |
yeah somebody posted stuff on this technology in the COR before. really cool what Micro$oft are coming up with.
The real question is... will this technology help us find the g-spot? |
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| MKpacha |
| quote: | Originally posted by Theresa
Holy e. I was able to zoom in and see my roomies car in his parking spot at our building. That is incredible. |
how do u use it? i only see the exmaple??? where can i type in a location? |
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