“You can expect Photosynth and Streetside to converge in a way that allows us to document the important places in the world, indoors or outdoors,” says Microsoft, “and explore them in a completely natural way.”
Microsoft is integrating 18,000 of its Photosynths [in which
multiple photographs are collated into a simulated 3D construct] into its Bing
Maps.
The company also demonstrated live webcam feeds overlaying
real-time video on street-level imagery, “adding another dimension to the
mapping experience.”
Microsoft provided a technology preview of its Streetside
Photos application, which uses geo-tagged photos from Flickr, and relates them
to its Streetside imagery to show images matched to its original spatial
context, providing a more detailed image of an exact location than that
captured from the street side camera cars. Microsoft adds that upcoming indoor
panorama functions “won’t be limited to places you can take a vehicle.”
Flickr states, with each photo, it provides the name of the
photo, when it was uploaded, and the username.
Streetside Photos is currently available in Seattle, Wash.;
San Francisco, Calif.; and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
“In the coming year, we think you will be pleasantly surprised with how far Bing takes this new technology,” Microsoft says, as its “spatial search” connects data with a physical context, and includes “high-resolution imagery, from outer space all the way down to the front door of the bakery.”
February 15, 2010
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