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EU requests Google delete Street View images after 6 months
- anigbrowl 17y agoI think it would be better to just remove the people altogether. Taking photographs in pairs (and possibly using a small radar gun as well) makes it pretty easy to derive 3d, and Google Earth etc. is steadily getting more 3d of ordinary buildings. Texture mapping the street view photographs onto the 3d models of houses is surely not far behind, and 'editing out' people and cars automatically becomes practical. Yes, this does need a huge amount of computing power. And some of that task can be farmed out. Imagine that when someone uses a Nexus One with their 'goggles' app, the phone does some primitive analysis of the scene as data comes in from the camera, then uploads the results to Google Earth's servers, allowing them to refine their models. But I've always believed that Google were playing the long, long game with Google Earth. I can see it being a platform for everything from 3d games to real-time analysis of census or business data.