In other cases, the camera might have captured an electronic sign on a bank, or billboard. In the case of the Street View photo that's at my nearest station, they're selling a gallon of regular for $2.67-this was obviously taken in better times, and using this site we can pin it down to around August of last year. One of the discoveries I've made is a relatively easy way to tell how old these photos are: gas prices. Wired is currently running a best finds contest, and earlier today Mashable posted several user-submitted findings that contain some of the more interesting photos found on the service. According to Immersive Media, they're typically on the road capturing imagery and data 46 hours a day using multiple vehicles with the mounted cameras.ĭaniel Terdiman had an interesting post yesterday about some of the minute details these images have captured, and the inherent security issues. In comparison, the level of detail and proportionate work that goes into the tech behind Street View is very resource-intensive. They explained that the aerial and satellite maps we see on these services are generally completely redone every year, with the more populated areas getting more frequent flyovers and subsequent refreshes. I had a meeting earlier in the week with the folks from DigitalGlobe, who provide satellite imagery for Google Earth, and several other private and commercial services. One of my big questions whenever these photographic services come out, is how often the imagery gets updated. What we're seeing on Street View are image stills from that video, which is how you're able to get a new shot from nearly every point on a recorded route. This camera is mounted on top of a moving vehicle that both records video and geodata simultaneously. Both use an 11-lens camera called Dodeca 2360 that captures an immensely large surface area of images at a very high resolution. In addition to these interactive 3D pictures, they use the same technology for videos.
The data for four of the five Street View-enabled cities comes from a company called Immersive Media. Here at CNET, we're also centrally located in one of the few cities ( San Francisco) to have nearly all of its main thoroughfares Street View-enabled. It's one of those Web services that just works. I spent a good part of yesterday tooling around with the new Google Maps Street View feature.
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