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OT: GoogleMaps' Street View - How Dey Do Dat?

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(PeteCresswell)

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Dec 21, 2009, 8:04:32 PM12/21/09
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Does anybody know how they collect all those panorama images that
are available in GoogleMaps' "StreetView" layer?

My guess is a truck driving around with some sort of automatic
panorama camera just clicking away every so many feet.

Truth or fiction?

Anybody know the details?
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PeteCresswell

wee...@aol.com

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Dec 21, 2009, 8:19:02 PM12/21/09
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I believe that is true with camera's mounted on vehicles. I went on to
streetview to check out my old neighborhood/house out in Cali when I
was a kid. I actually saw my old neighbors talking to each other in
their driveway. Pretty cool.

Michael

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Dec 22, 2009, 8:21:06 AM12/22/09
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On Dec 21, 8:04 pm, "(PeteCresswell)" <x...@y.Invalid> wrote:

I've seen them doing it...it was a car with an elaborate roof-mounted
tripod carrying four cameras. The car actually said "Google" on it.

slalomguy

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Dec 23, 2009, 1:09:10 PM12/23/09
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> I've seen them doing it...it was a car with an elaborate roof-mounted
> tripod carrying four cameras. The car actually said "Google" on it.

They,Gaastra, used to test sails like this in the 80's.

wee...@aol.com

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Dec 23, 2009, 1:45:41 PM12/23/09
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You're right, I remember seeing a picture of Gaastra doing that.
Gaastra was my first quiver of cambered induced sails back then, also
my last.

Brian Sangeorzan

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Dec 23, 2009, 4:04:32 PM12/23/09
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Yeah, I saw that picture too, and I think the R&D guys were Barry Spanier
and Bruce Peterson.
Howz that for history!
Brian

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On Dec 23, 1:09?pm, "slalomguy" <slalom...@twentyknots.com> wrote:
> > I've seen them doing it...it was a car with an elaborate roof-mounted

> > tripod carrying four cameras. ? The car actually said "Google" on it.

Dan Weiss

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Dec 23, 2009, 9:11:29 PM12/23/09
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On Dec 23, 4:04 pm, "Brian Sangeorzan" <u...@wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I saw that picture too, and I think the R&D guys were Barry Spanier
> and Bruce Peterson.
> Howz that for history!
> Brian
>
> <weed...@aol.com> wrote in message

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> news:c1723a44-44ad-4fd2...@a32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
> On Dec 23, 1:09?pm, "slalomguy" <slalom...@twentyknots.com> wrote:
>
> > > I've seen them doing it...it was a car with an elaborate roof-mounted
> > > tripod carrying four cameras. ? The car actually said "Google" on it.
>
> > They,Gaastra, used to test sails like this in the 80's.
>
> You're right, I remember seeing a picture of Gaastra doing that.
> Gaastra was my first quiver of cambered induced sails back then, also
> my last.

Yep, that was the Advanced Data Testing Rig (or a name very close to
that "A.D.T.R.") rig developed by Jeff Mangnan and Chuck Stahl and
used a great deal by many of today's sail designers even though it was
offered to help Gaastra with R&D in 1988 on onward.


outdrsmn

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Jan 5, 2010, 10:14:59 PM1/5/10
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Here is a link to what one of the vehicles looks like.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Google_Street_View_car_Switzerland.jpg
I saw a different type cruising my area, it looked like a cross
between the vehicle they use in Storm Chasers and something from Back
to the Future.
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