Smile! You're on Google!!

[bigandclever]

Well, not yet you're not. But keep your eye's peeled for a motor like this.....



They're *everywhere* apparently

[Pulse]

...WTF?

[daveco]

Ah I see Vauxhall have launched their new 'roof periscope' that spots traffic jams from up to '14 feet away'.

Easily worth the 4k asking price in my superior but humble opinion.

[MK4 Slowride]

WTF!

There can't be too many tools with some weird st attached to the roof of a new Vauxhall Astra.

[Neil_H]

I assume this is some kind of street mapping equipment?

[Hub]

Google street view - look on google maps in any US city, it's amazing!

[bigandclever]

Here's one in Cardiff...



They are the Google Street Maps cars.

[MK4 Slowride]

OK will let them off.

How come they're running Opel Astra's but with UK plates?

[danrc]

Oh are they mapping the UK roads aswell now? The feature on Google maps to zoom right into road level in America is simply amazing.

It won't be long till tools like that and this CLICKY will be used in conjunction to create one super map of the world.

Amazing.

[Tony*T3]

Google street level imagery?

Select a UA poscode, zoom down low enough, you can now 'drive' along the streets and see images every 5 metres or so. There was a thread showing this, as the car was driving along it took photos of a boy riding along on his bike, until he hit a lampost or something.


Persoanlly not sure the applocation for all this.

[off_again]

In the USA there are loads of examples of silly / funny things happening - its quite amusing. Lets see what happens here!!

http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-stree...

http://news.mylocoworld.com/2008/04/07/google-stre...

There is loads of this stuff - off to find some more, back in a minute and will add as I can.

Edited by off_again on Thursday 3rd July 12:53

Edited by off_again on Thursday 3rd July 13:04

[TonyHetherington]

Cool stuff

[danrc]

Tony*T3 said:

Google street level imagery?

Select a UA poscode, zoom down low enough, you can now 'drive' along the streets and see images every 5 metres or so. There was a thread showing this, as the car was driving along it took photos of a boy riding along on his bike, until he hit a lampost or something.


Persoanlly not sure the applocation for all this.

I was just on a data management conference and there is a big push to link GIS in with everything. Google Earth seems to be the driving force behind a lot of it as it is so powerful. Imagine if you could link you photo's in with other people's to create a virtual photograph of the whole are giving you a 3d perspcetive. Its about the only thing i got excited about at the conference

[Landlord]

Tony*T3 said:

Persoanlly not sure the applocation for all this.

"Real-vue" sat-nav?

By the way, I hereby copyright the term "real-vue" for applications including, but not limited to, satellite navigation and direction provision services

[BoRED S2upid]

They haven;t even got satelite images for my areas nevermind road images!. Going to be a LONG time before this is useful unless you live in a big city.

[Road_Terrorist]

I've been caught twice now

[anonymous-user]

bigandclever said:

Here's one in Cardiff...



They are the Google Street Maps cars.

I saw that one going around North Cardiff a few days back. It's too bad I was in the car, I wanted to strike a pose or something

Maybe I should've crashed into him

[Neil_H]

Amazing stuff - just looking at Beverley Hills, Las Vegas and NYC. Hope they go as far as the London suburbs!

[ol]

This is nuts. Technology these days eh!

[mr_spock]

I saw one on the A406 near Muswell Hill last week... I'll look out for myself!