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I am very impressed with this project. In my opinion this is even better than Google Maps, which relies on hand modeled structures. I'd like to see Google imp

I am very impressed with this project. In my opinion this is even better than Google Maps, which relies on hand modeled structures. I'd like to see Google implement Flickr reconstructions so that even if no one has hand modeled buildings there will still be 3D structures there when you zoom in. Naturally not every place will have such a high photo density but there must be a lot of cities and tourist sites that can be reconstructed in a similar manner.

dhughes 17y ago
Something like that was announced just yesterday, or very recently, Google is going to use traffic camera, security camera footage to liven up their maps with realistic crowd and vehicles, plus I assume part of they could use any building photo too for their 3D map.
- anigbrowl 17y ago
  That was a private hack from students at Georgia Tech - preprint of their impressive paper: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cpl/projects/augearth/augearth_ismar_reduce.pdf http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cpl/projects/augearth/augearth_isma...