Google Street View now includes interiors • Hacker News Board

BSeward wrote: post #6

Love the idea, but the Street View UI has never felt all that fun to use and it feels worse indoors. Walking around a shop or mall at Street View pace—12-ish steps for every press of a small, non-fixed arrow—is something I hope I never have a reason to do. The pancake ( http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/04/introducing-the-pancake-a-l... ) and the city-scale of things make moving on streets more tolerable (though Legoland…

When did google start using flash for street view?

Re: Google Street View now includes interiors

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Post by MikeGrace » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 4:40 PM UTC

Interesting to see this on HN since I blogged about this a few weeks ago. http://geek.michaelgrace.org/2011/10/google-street-view-in-y... Not sure exactly when Google first started doing this but I like it.

Re: Google Street View now includes interiors

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Post by thesash » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 4:40 PM UTC

If you look straight down in the linked shot you can see that they are using a camera on a tripod in lieu of the previous backpack or cart mounted multi-camera rigs

Re: Google Street View now includes interiors

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Post by danielamitay » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 4:42 PM UTC

sethg wrote: post #31

They blurred the face of the guy in the store, but not the faces on the comic-book covers. Interesting.

Although I agree that most comic faces are left unblurred--when I look at some (perhaps 15%) of the faces visible, they are without a doubt blurred. They tend to be the ones that are forward-facing, without facial hair, and natural skin colors.

Example: Take a look at the GI Joe comic on your right all the way at the end.

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Post by studgeek » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 4:42 PM UTC

I do think the interior is the next big push, but its not grabbing historical photos - its interior location so you can target ads in real-time and real-location. Manga, produce, housewares, TVs?

Re: Google Street View now includes interiors

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Post by MikeGrace » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 4:43 PM UTC

Love the simplicity of their setup (camera on tripod on wheels) https://skitch.com/mikegrace/gds67/screen-shot-2011-10-26-at...

Re: Google Street View now includes interiors

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Post by Splines » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 4:49 PM UTC

MikeGrace wrote: post #39

Love the simplicity of their setup (camera on tripod on wheels) https://skitch.com/mikegrace/gds67/screen-shot-2011-10-26-at...

I wonder where the operator has to stand. Maybe it takes it one side at a time?

Otherwise you'd see camera guys hiding behind trees and such, which is an amusing thought.