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Re: Google Treks

#11

Post by ohwp »

This is a little unrelated but I notice that all Google services are getting very slow. They eat up CPU and memory like it's nothing.

It's nice what can be done with Internet these days but I prefer the old quick Google with almost the same features but less shine.

Re: Google Treks

#13

Post by apunic »

Just because it's from Google it must be special?

Don't want to sound too negative but wondering if Trek would get any attention if done by some startup.

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Post by jac_no_k »

benatkin wrote: post #3

Google can't wait to usher in a future where people stay in their rooms and eat Soylent while being entertained and exercised by their VR-enabled computers.

Partly a reality for cyclists.

http://www.tacx.com/en/products/trainers/i-genius-multiplaye...

http://www.cycleops.com/en/products/software/virtual-trainin...

http://www.minoura.jp/english/trainer-e/option-e/cogmon-e.ht...

Cycling on indoor trainers is boring without some sort of incentive.

Re: Google Treks

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Post by mynegation »

Where do I apply and what is the hourly rate? I assume all travel expenses are also paid.

On a serious note, in the footsteps of OpenStreetMap that could be a great next community project: write the software for the infrastructure and the camera gear, open the designs of data collecting hardware (for the 3D printers) and let people upload their treks.

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Post by swamp40 »

apunic wrote: post #13

Just because it's from Google it must be special? Don't want to sound too negative but wondering if Trek would get any attention if done by some startup.

If some startup comes along and provides stunning zoom-able StreetView pictures of some no-name street in Tel-Aviv and two clicks later it can show you the red light district in Bangkok, all for free and all taken in 2013, I think a lot of people would give that startup its due.

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Post by dylangs1030 »

apunic wrote: post #13

Just because it's from Google it must be special? Don't want to sound too negative but wondering if Trek would get any attention if done by some startup.

I'm not sure you appreciate the engineering infrastructure at work here. This isn't special because Google is doing it, it's special because it's really hard to do. How would you go about attempting this project as effectively as Google with the resources of a typical startup company?

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Post by Eliezer »

benatkin wrote: post #3

Google can't wait to usher in a future where people stay in their rooms and eat Soylent while being entertained and exercised by their VR-enabled computers.

Yeah, I hate to be a Luddite but... this is just wrong, wrong, wrong. And I speak as someone who looks forward to Soylent.
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