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[Alphaman]

Google said on their blog, "By the end of the year we aim to have 3D coverage for metropolitan areas with a combined population of 300 million people."

So, less than 5% of the world's population, which occupies less than 1% of the Earth's surface, won't be viewable until next year?

This is pertinent, why?

Wow, can you say "damage control"? It rhymes with "vaporware". GoOgle seems to be really good at that (*cough* Goggles *cough*) lately.

[Jacques42]

"The Trekker is meant to compliment existing off road Street View cameras "

That would be "complement".

[chimerical77]

Why doesn't Google sell GPS devices that can be constantly updated from its web site and by the user?

[TeaEarleGreyHot]

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...a bank of computers uses complicated algorithms to review all the images captured by the planes.

You're smart.
You can make us go!

[doglesby]

"You just select a section of a map that he will need offline before they leave home."
Really? Did someone who claims to be a writer actually publish this sentence? What took so long to post this story? It clearly wasn't editing.

[dennishenley]

doglesby, on 07 June 2012 - 06:06 AM, said:

"You just select a section of a map that he will need offline before they leave home."
Really? Did someone who claims to be a writer actually publish this sentence? What took so long to post this story? It clearly wasn't editing.

I'm still laughing. You comment is spot on. Look at this paragraph about Street View.

"Luc Vincent, Google’s Street View engineering director was here to a new way Street View cameras will be going off-road to capture images. It unveiled a backpack-sized Street View camera that weighs 40-lbs and that people can wear and capture 360-degree images anyplace they can hike."

The point of view shifts so much it's like that 360° camera!

[Tom]

Jacques42, on 07 June 2012 - 04:37 AM, said:

"The Trekker is meant to compliment existing off road Street View cameras "

That would be "complement".

The entire article is poorly written and needs to be thoroughly edited.

[Inkling]

"Google says... that 75 percent of all people in world can now see their house in a high definition graphic on Google Maps."

I live on a busy Seattle street and could care less about this personally. But I suspect that more than a few of the some four billion people whose house is now online for all the world to see may be less than happy about this. And when they get unhappy, the politicians in their countries are going to start feigning concern and pretending to be angry. That'll mean trouble for Google, particularly in risk-adverse Western Europe.

[hnickm]

Tom, on 07 June 2012 - 07:00 AM, said:

Jacques42, on 07 June 2012 - 04:37 AM, said:

"The Trekker is meant to compliment existing off road Street View cameras "

That would be "complement".

The entire article is poorly written and needs to be thoroughly edited.

And while they're at it (editing that is), I suspect that "Stereophotogamitry" should really be "Stereophotogrammetry".

[heisetax]

Tom, on 07 June 2012 - 07:00 AM, said:

Jacques42, on 07 June 2012 - 04:37 AM, said:

"The Trekker is meant to compliment existing off road Street View cameras "

That would be "complement".

The entire article is poorly written and needs to be thoroughly edited.

They probably wrote it in Pages.

[heisetax]

This is good news for our Android smartphones & we hope that it will also be good news on all of our iToys. As long as Apple lets us have a choice in which mapping program we use I will be happy. Apple has a long history of starting something & then stopping it. Take iWork on the Mac. It's up to over 44 months now since any change. That's effectively ending support for it. As with all new things from Apple we will wait for a while before we start to use them.

[Stewsburntmonkey]

heisetax, on 07 June 2012 - 08:28 AM, said:

This is good news for our Android smartphones & we hope that it will also be good news on all of our iToys. As long as Apple lets us have a choice in which mapping program we use I will be happy. Apple has a long history of starting something & then stopping it. Take iWork on the Mac. It's up to over 44 months now since any change. That's effectively ending support for it. As with all new things from Apple we will wait for a while before we start to use them.

Why do you constantly lie about how long it has been since iWork was updated? It was updated last July, not 44 months ago.

[bettercitizens]

TeaEarleGreyHot, on 07 June 2012 - 05:42 AM, said:

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...a bank of computers uses complicated algorithms to review all the images captured by the planes.

You're smart.
You can make us go!

Let Geordi go, let him go...