It's mind boggling how bad the arabic translation is at:
http://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetvie...
It's like they ran the text in google translate and never bothered to check the results.
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#32Just 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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#33This 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.
Yup. This surely is unrelated.
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#34It's mind boggling how bad the arabic translation is at: http://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetvie... It's like they ran the text in google translate and never bothered to check the results.
Never mind the actual window-washers and builders who made these buildings are de-facto slaves to the Monarch of Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Then in the next demo over they try to get all multicultural with the first nations language "ᓱᑯᑦᑎᐊᓃᒃᑲᓗᐊᕐᖓᑦ ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ? "
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#35Where 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.
> Where do I apply
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#36There are some great images here. I like how Google has been striving to document more beautiful places. The sheer amount of brainpower and processing that Google is putting into Streetview is truly staggering and unprecedented. Nobody else out there is doing it in this way.
On a more hand-made note, my company, http://360cities.net, has been publishing user-generated 360º imagery since 2006. I have built a tour of my own city, Prague, starting in 2004, which was before Google Maps or Streetview. We now have hundreds of thousands of images, (all high-resolution, completely spherical 360º photos) from every country of the world, including some very remarkable places in Antarctica, skydiving from an airplane, underwater, "remote" places such as Havana, Iran, Tibet, Burma, Easter Island, and so on.
Our "editors' picks" are something I'm really proud of. https://www.360cities.net/search/@tags-editorspicks
here is our world map. zoomed out, you should see only "great" stuff: http://www.360cities.net/map
Other services that are similar to 360cities include http://viewat.org, http://roundus.com, http://arounder.com, http://photosynth.net.
Then there are the services for iphone/android 360º app, but these images are far lower in quality overall: http://occipital.com/360/verse and http://dermandar.com/worldmap
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#37This 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.
Yup. This surely is unrelated.
Well in fact it wasn't that unrelated. I can barely watch the special Google maps sites like this one: http://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetvie...
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#38There are some great images here. I like how Google has been striving to document more beautiful places. The sheer amount of brainpower and processing that Google is putting into Streetview is truly staggering and unprecedented. Nobody else out there is doing it in this way. On a more hand-made note, my company, http://360cities.net , has been publishing user-generated 360º imagery since 2006. I have built a tour of…
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#39Google 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.
You laugh. My first thought was how to get this mashed up with https://github.com/benvanik/vr.js
There's already Streetview: http://oculusstreetview.eu.pn/?lat=25.196966&lng=55.27379900...
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#40This 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.
I have to agree, at least in terms of these Trek sites. The latest versions of Safari, Firefox, and Chrome constantly use 50%+ of my CPU to render these pages, without me having to scroll or interact at all. For a site that doesn't use any plug-ins, it sure heats up my laptop like a plug-in would.
* Edit: I only meant to agree that these specific Trek sites feel very slow, not "all Google services."