Google Street View debuts in Portland

[ponyfool]

SE Precinct. Once there, scroll around a bit, check it out. I don't know how many cities have it yet.

This is cool and creepy at the same time! The cool part is, for high risk warrants, we can use the Google Street View maps for tactical entry planning by actually seeing the terrain up close without actually being there. Of course, the creepy part is, so can everyone else!!!

I looked at my house (no, sorry, I won't post that one), and it shows both my cars in the driveway, house number, dog looking over the fence, etc. But the shadows of the big trees make it not so easy to discern details. Now, my neighbor's house, well, I can see great detail! And at another friend's house, I could see a kid in the cul-de-sac riding his skateboard.

Viewing downtown is kinda cool too, lots of people on the sidewalk.

 

[twowheelnut]

This technology is getting downright scary! Cool, but scary!

 

[OhioFJR1300]

That is way cool.

 

[SockMonkey]

Holy ****! I just looked up my house and sure enough, there it is; both cars in the driveway, flowers in bloom (meaning the shot was taken sometime in July-August timeframe). Grabbing the photo and rotating it around (and forward and backward and looking up and down the street) is kind of cool... Sure does seem like it would be all that much easier for a thief to get an idea of the lay-of-the-land as it were. Frightening, actually, now that I think about it!

 

[TriggerT]

So anyone know how they got the street level view? It almost looks like they drove around in a van with multiple cameras, and then integrated it along with their satellite imagery. If that is how this was done, they would have do to a ton of work to use it all over the country.

 

[bramfrank]

So anyone know how they got the street level view? It almost looks like they drove around in a van with multiple cameras, and then integrated it along with their satellite imagery. If that is how this was done, they would have do to a ton of work to use it all over the country.

That's EXACTLY how they did it. Two guys in a small car with a pole sticking up from the roof with the 3D camera - saw one of their crews surveying my city a couple of weeks ago (small magnetic sign on the side that said Google Maps). The guy in the back seat is transcribing descriptive information about street addresses and names and directions which eventually can be used to generate routing data.

Google uses Navteq's street data for the moment.

That's also how Navteq does the preliminary surveys for their mapping data (saw a description on Navteq's site a while ago) - obviously it pays off, since Navteq is being sold to Nokia for some 8.1 billion dollars - or is it just a symptom of a new dot-bomb about to occur?

 

[uctofeej]

So anyone know how they got the street level view? It almost looks like they drove around in a van with multiple cameras, and then integrated it along with their satellite imagery. If that is how this was done, they would have do to a ton of work to use it all over the country.

That's EXACTLY how they did it. Two guys in a small car with a pole sticking up from the roof with the 3D camera...

Yep, prolly something like this:

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[Ignacio]

I even found a place that served a good steak and great *** to me like 5 years ago....and I think VooDoo Doughnuts is in this scene.

 

[ponyfool]

I even found a place that served a good steak and great *** to me like 5 years ago....

You ate at the Acrop???? And survived???? I guess what they say is true. If what you are looking at when you eat looks appealing, the food tastes better. You must not have been looking at your food!

 

[FJR_pig]

and I think VooDoo Doughnuts is in this scene.

At the risk of backing up an ugly professional stereotype, I will say that VooDoo Doughnuts rocks. I used to meet up with my sister there once a week for coffee and a doughnut when I still worked in town.

 

[Ignacio]

At the risk of backing up an ugly professional stereotype, I will say that VooDoo Doughnuts rocks. I used to meet up with my sister there once a week for coffee and a doughnut when I still worked in town.

And the goth chicks stereotyping me as totally unhip.....fine since I wonder what else besides their face is pierced.

[homer impersonation]And a maple bar with BACON........MMMmmmmmm......and to chase it with a Nyquil doughnut makes me sleepy at work......ZZzzzzzzz[/homer impersonation]

 

[wpbfjr]

At the risk of backing up an ugly professional stereotype, I will say that VooDoo Doughnuts rocks. I used to meet up with my sister there once a week for coffee and a doughnut when I still worked in town.

and that fosters yet another stereotype... lol... :rofl:

 

[twowheelnut]

I even found a place that served a good steak and great *** to me like 5 years ago....and I think VooDoo Doughnuts is in this scene.

Ah, yes. Fine steaks are always to be had at windowless restur, er, meat emporiums. The downside to that kinda joint is that you always have to tip your server twice.

 

[slapnpop]

I even found a place that served a good steak and great *** to me like 5 years ago....

You ate at the Acrop???? And survived???? I guess what they say is true. If what you are looking at when you eat looks appealing, the food tastes better. You must not have been looking at your food!

That's the place with the checkerboard theme goin' on in the east side of town, right? Is it wrong that I know that after being in town only a short period of time?