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Just a couple weeks ago, Google announced they're going to re-photograph Street View in my country, though, which is still running on the initial 2007ish data.
by tannhaeuser 3y ago
Just a couple weeks ago, Google announced they're going to re-photograph Street View in my country, though, which is still running on the initial 2007ish data. How would that be profitable? The idea of virtual ads placed onto pseudo 3D walls was already present when Street View started but apparently didn't deliver economically. Maybe they want to break resistance this time around as they had lots of data protection complaints/requests for blocking a particular lot from displaying unblurred at my place?
- pronik 3y agoAre you talking about Germany? Google never stopped creating new images in Germany, they've just decided they would put the new images online (which they already did).
- johannes1234321 3y agoMind that they don't only take pictures. The cars are full of sensors. From GPS to verify coordinates of roads, over Wifi to scan SSIDs for locating devices without GPS to LIDAR to scan 3D features and probably a lot more ...
- bhandziuk 3y agoAnd all the pictures have things like street signs and traffic lights and fire hydrants which people have been helping locate with recaptchas.
- commonlisp94 3y agoI think this a myth told by marketing. They already know the photos have the objects they are interested in. Are they still working on motorcycles buses and signs? The recaptcha part doesn't even depend on recognition, it's just a statistical comparison with what other humans clicked on given the same prompt + some pointer analysis and browser fingerprinting.