Subject: ‘Street View’
February 23, 2012 Street View Goes Underwater and to Red SquareGIS NewsThe Catlin Seaview Survey aims to provide a comprehensive study of the Great Barrier Reef in order to understand the composition and health of this oceanic environment. Part of this study involves the use of the Catlin Seaview Survey camera which will take thousands of 360-degree underwater panoramas. Those images will be stitched together to provide unprecedented ... read more October 13, 2010 The Wilderness DowntownGIS NewsSet to Arcade Fire’s “We Used to Wait”, the Wilderness Downtown mixes in aerial and street View imagery in this Chrome experiment project. Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering… this Chrome Experiment has them all. “The Wilderness Downtown” is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire’s song “We ... read more August 2, 2010 Street View Legal Issues Keep Google BusyIssues in GISThe UK Guardian reports that almost half of the sixty worldwide legal or criminal investigations against Google involve their Street View imagery. Currently, there are 28 of them with eleven occurring within the United States. Aqute Intelligence, a competitive analysis firm, produced a Google Maps display of some of the lawsuits against Google. [T]he search ... read more July 9, 2010 Web Mapping NewsWeb MappingGoogle has decided to resume gathering street level imagery in four countries. Google announced on its European Public Policy blog that it will resume Street Viewing driving in Ireland, Norway, South Africa and Sweden. Google had halted the collection of imagery in May: In May we announced that we had mistakenly included code in our ... read more December 15, 2009 MapQuest Tries to Keep UpWeb MappingMapQuest, lagging behing both Google and Bing, released 360. That’s right, you can now view MapQuest Maps in a whole new way. We have developed a simple, easy-to-use interface that fits seamlessly into the MapQuest mapping experience you have come to know and understand. 360 View provides fantastic panoramic views (360° horizontally and 160° vertically) ... read more June 29, 2008Google’s Street View Car AdventuresFunApparently one of Google’s Street View car drivers decided that an up close and personal tour of Microsoft’s Campus was in order. According to Gizmodo (the site refers to it as the GooCar): The GooCar…wasn’t just covering regular roads, they were going in-between buildings and getting as many angles as they could of the campus….the ... read more August 3, 2006 GeoBriefs: Canadian Geomatics Employment Center, ResMap, ArcGIS ExplorerCareerThe Canadian Geomatics Employment Center website provides users with tools to help find GIS, Remote Sensing, CAD, and Mapping jobs by connecting Canadian employers with qualified job seekers. Registration and resume posting is free to job seekers and employers: Canadian Geomatics Employment Center. Elizabeth Ward from the Washington Post has a review of some emerging books on geography ... read more |
