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This was previously covered by a well-known post by the OP: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat The
by mturmon 7y ago
This was previously covered by a well-known post by the OP:
https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat
The necessary link between aerial imagery and on-ground navigation by mobile phone is a 3d map.
I'd like to know where the front entrance is vs. the side entrance, is there a ramp vs. stairs, are these two buildings connected or not, is there a skyway, is there a penthouse on the roof, is there a garage behind the main house, etc.
- jandrese 7y agoSo Google Street View is chopped liver? Flat gray 3D representations don't seem to answer those questions as well as just tooling around the building in Google Street View.
- zapzupnz 7y agoGoogle's also moving towards adding 3D topography to their maps so I don't quite see what your point is. This isn't an Apple vs Google thing; they're both doing the same things, they just seem to have different priorities about the order in which they do it.
- outworlder 7y ago> So Google Street View is chopped liver Yes. Because this is missing an important point. In order to render the data, the data has to be in a format understood by computers, which street view is not.