Everyone's very excited about the new Street View feature in Google Maps and the cool 3D view in Microsoft maps. And they both are indeed great...if you live in NYC or San Francisco or some other major metropolitan area where the Google van or the Microsoft aerial photography planes have cruised past. But the sad reality is that most of us aren't so lucky (okay, as it happens I am--that's my SF office building at right--but you get my point).
What about everyone else? I was reminded about this in reading the BoingBoing thread on this, where reader Andrew Iverson says:
I guess i'm in a small group, i wish they would cover more than just those cities, but i live in a very small town (River Falls, WI) that on google maps is in very bad resolution.
Good point. I suggest taking matters into your own hands.
Rather than wait for the Microsoft plane to darken your rooftop or the Google van to drive down your block, just build your own UAV and get high resolution aerial imagery of your own neighborhood (or anybody else's) as often as you want. It's the Long Tail of mapping!
And you thought my crazy summer project had nothing to do with the subject of this blog....
BTW, if you want to see the UAVs up close and working (well, at least on the ground), I'll be presenting them this evening at IDEO's Quickie fest in San Francisco.
I am leaving this as a comment because I don't know how to ask you directly...
My girlfriend and I are debating who would win in a fight between 10 elephants and 1 billion ants. I say the ants, she says the elephants. What do you think?
Posted by: Curtis | June 06, 2007 at 11:20 PM
"...whether it is a Web viewer like Google Earth..."
Google Earth is not a Web viewer or Web application, it is an standalone application that must be download and run from your computer. Perhaps you meant Google Maps?
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The spatial tags in Geonomy (a hobby project) hint at a long tail indeed.
For example, the "subduction volcanoes" tag:
http://www.geonomy.com/geonomy/viewHome.do?lat=16.97274101999902&lon=-7.03125&zoom=2&tagName=Subduction%20volcanoes
http://www.geonomy.com
Posted by: wow powerleveling | June 07, 2007 at 12:41 AM
Guys, have a look at the great Globe Glider Open source project from Bernhard. We are aiming at GeoGames to stimulate the Long Tail of simulation model - beyond the mashup. Check our TakeOff: http://takeoff.geo-games.eu
Http://geo-games.eu
Or go glide at once at: http://globeglider.net
Most curious what you see from there: http://visualcuriosity.blogs.com
Posted by: Jerome | June 07, 2007 at 09:04 AM
I think it's just fine that Street View hasn't made it to my small town. Let's see how the privacy issues get worked out in the big towns first. That's what some of the "excitement" about Street View has been online the last couple of days - the slippery slope to invasion of privacy.
Posted by: Mary | June 07, 2007 at 06:32 PM
I would love to see Google release a streetview API. I don't think they have already, have they? They'll never cover the earth on their own, so why not give that opportunity to their user base?
Posted by: Craig | June 08, 2007 at 06:21 PM
I don't know. Sometimes it seems to me that Google won't be happy until they cram every little aspect of our reality into the computers.
It will be a perfect digital replica. Yet somehow it will be missing a very essential essence. But then how much of the real reality to people really see? They will probably be extremely happy with a copy that can be 100% perfectly defined...
Posted by: Marcus | June 11, 2007 at 02:23 PM
It seems to me that it would be easier to do our own long-tail Street View, rather than aerial views. They should just open it up so that people could submit their OWN Street View of their address (although I don't know how they could ever verify it). That way, you could make sure nothing incriminating was going on when the view was submitted.
Of course, stitching it together, they way they have with theirs, would be a lot harder.
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Posted by: aizheng | June 12, 2007 at 11:58 PM
I like google version better. Microsoft still has a lot more areas to cover. I'm waiting impatiently till some year 20xx, when every little corner of the earth will be digitally scanned and virtually available :)
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