If Google and Stanford are doing 3D maps, why not Berkeley?

berkeley.jpgWe reported a while back about Google’s plans to develop 3D maps of San Francisco with trucks equipped with lasers and digital photographic, and related Stanford research — unearthed by SEW. Now Slashdot points us to UC Berkeley’s unrelated research project to do 3D maps of Berkeley.

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  • wgquist
    Trucks with lasers and digital cameras? Seems very 'Star Wars' when companies have the technology to do it in scalable fashion today... see www.3DVU.com...
  • Danny Hillis already has this at Applied Minds.