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There are some great images here. I like how Google has been striving to document more beautiful places. The sheer amount of brainpower and processing that Goog
by nakedrobot2 13y ago
There are some great images here. I like how Google has been striving to document more beautiful places. The sheer amount of brainpower and processing that Google is putting into Streetview is truly staggering and unprecedented. Nobody else out there is doing it in this way.
On a more hand-made note, my company, http://360cities.net http://360cities.net, has been publishing user-generated 360º imagery since 2006. I have built a tour of my own city, Prague, starting in 2004, which was before Google Maps or Streetview. We now have hundreds of thousands of images, (all high-resolution, completely spherical 360º photos) from every country of the world, including some very remarkable places in Antarctica, skydiving from an airplane, underwater, "remote" places such as Havana, Iran, Tibet, Burma, Easter Island, and so on.
Our "editors' picks" are something I'm really proud of.
https://www.360cities.net/search/@tags-editorspicks https://www.360cities.net/search/@tags-editorspicks
here is our world map. zoomed out, you should see only "great" stuff: http://www.360cities.net/map http://www.360cities.net/map
Other services that are similar to 360cities include http://viewat.org http://viewat.org, http://roundus.com http://roundus.com, http://arounder.com http://arounder.com, http://photosynth.net http://photosynth.net.
Then there are the services for iphone/android 360º app, but these images are far lower in quality overall: http://occipital.com/360/verse http://occipital.com/360/verse and http://dermandar.com/worldmap http://dermandar.com/worldmap
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- monsterix 13y agoUpvoted, bookmarked and thanks! Always in the look for alternatives to Google.
- rattray 13y agoWhy was this downvoted?
- themstheones 13y agoBecause talking about voting is somewhat annoying as it has nothing to do with the discussion at hand.
- jessriedel 13y agoTo expand on what themstheones said: upvotes and downvotes are for increasing the visibility of a comment in proportion to how it contributes to a good discussion. Downvotes aren't punishment.
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- calbear81 13y agoAwesome! What do you think of combining 360º imagery with something like Oculus Rift to enable immersive travel experiences?