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I have heard Google plans to do street-view of Burning Man, but it has never appeared. Perhaps this will be the venue if/when it finally does.
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.
I have heard Google plans to do street-view of Burning Man, but it has never appeared. Perhaps this will be the venue if/when it finally does.
Probably not going to happen. The organizers require (or used to require) a percentage of all revenue made from professionally taken photos [0] [0] http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/burningman.html
Edit: damn, we need more people like jwz.
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.
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?
It would not be as good as streetview though.
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.
Imagine if we had these kind of views of, say, the streets of London in 1900? This is worth doing for history's sake alone.
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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?
Crawl the web for images, use the GPS EXIF data to find clusters, and use image processing to stitch together 3D environments from the photos. It would not be as good as streetview though.
And if you scripted a time limit for images, e.g. only within a few hours, you'd heavily limit the amount of usable images you had.
With "agents in the field" Google could potentially update its feeds whenever and as often as it needed. The difference would be having an in-house image-generating infrastructure or...well...tag-searching Instagram.
[1]: http://www.google.com/loon/#utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc...
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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?
Crawl the web for images, use the GPS EXIF data to find clusters, and use image processing to stitch together 3D environments from the photos. It would not be as good as streetview though.
edit: believe it was related to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynth