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]]> By: Peter Arbuthnott http://localonliner.com/2007/05/30/where-20-3d-data-arms-race/comment-page-1/#comment-64191 Peter Arbuthnott Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:43:14 +0000 http://localonliner.com/?p=394#comment-64191 Hey. I wonder if you saw my presentation at Where 2.0 on Tuesday at 11:05 on our Quakr project (<a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.quakr.co.uk</a>). It is an attempt to do the 3d world using user generated photographs (currently pulled from Flickr). The biggest hole in all the current mapping technologies is that they believe they are dealing with a single absolute set of data. There is no time based information inherent in the view of "THE Google Earth" or "THE MS Virtual Earth". When a building is built, a shop changes hands or a public space is re-developed, the model is out of date and shows no historical references once it's updated. Our project aims to use the fact that people are doing the photography already, are geo-locating their photographs already, and can pull all that data together to show any place in the world as it is AND was. The major hole in the StreetView product is that it is entirely based on places that the immersive media video car can go. It will never be able to answer questions like ... What's underneath the Golden Gate bridge? What happens when you Bike/Walk down that lane? It seems to us that these are important questions in order to properly orientate any person within the world. I wonder if you have any thoughts on this?? Hey.

I wonder if you saw my presentation at Where 2.0 on Tuesday at 11:05 on our Quakr project (http://www.quakr.co.uk). It is an attempt to do the 3d world using user generated photographs (currently pulled from Flickr).

The biggest hole in all the current mapping technologies is that they believe they are dealing with a single absolute set of data. There is no time based information inherent in the view of “THE Google Earth” or “THE MS Virtual Earth”. When a building is built, a shop changes hands or a public space is re-developed, the model is out of date and shows no historical references once it’s updated. Our project aims to use the fact that people are doing the photography already, are geo-locating their photographs already, and can pull all that data together to show any place in the world as it is AND was.

The major hole in the StreetView product is that it is entirely based on places that the immersive media video car can go. It will never be able to answer questions like … What’s underneath the Golden Gate bridge? What happens when you Bike/Walk down that lane?

It seems to us that these are important questions in order to properly orientate any person within the world.

I wonder if you have any thoughts on this??

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