castro_all_trees-with-rays-w1000.gifSVW unearths Google plans to use trucks equipped with lasers and digital photographic equipment to create “a realistic 3D online version of San Francisco, and eventually other major US cities.”

Watch out (Amazon.com) A9. According to SEW, Google’s plan would be to complement the mostly top-down view of San Francisco available through Google’s Keyhole satellite photo application, and thus trumping the work already done by A9 driving around cities to make 2D maps. Researchers at Stanford university are apparently working on this and other city related projects

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  1. June 9th, 2005
    6:06 am

    bennellibrothers.com said:

    Razor can visit SanFran in 3-D

    With all of Razor’s recent concerns with San Francisco (i.e, dwindling population, etc), he soon will be able to visit the Castro District in 3-D. SiliconValleyWatcher has the story on one of Google’s latest efforts: Google plans to use trucks…

  2. June 9th, 2005
    1:22 pm

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  3. June 10th, 2005
    8:37 am

    Benoit Caire said:

    Google modélise en 3D San Francisco

    D’après Matt Marshall, Google serait sur le point de modéliser la ville de San Francisco en 3D afin d’améliorer son outil de recherche géographique, disposant déjà de la vision photographique par satellite.Voici un exemple de recherche d’un Starb…

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  5. July 2nd, 2005
    2:38 am