Google street view , new angle to view

[sparkeyrjp]

G00gle are using surplus surveillance drones from the US military to develop a 3D StreetView. The idea is to have a drone follow each StreetView CCTV camera car at a height of 50 metres. Instead of the existing 2D images, the new service will capture 3D images using software developed jointly by G00gle and Caltech.

 

This software is being installed in G00gle Glass, so that users can explore a 3D representation of any street they choose to download. It will appear to users that they are standing in the actual street.

 

The 3D StreetView Privacy Impact Assessment appended to G00gle’s Privacy Policy recommends that the drones should not be silent but “should emit a sound like the low frequency buzz of a Doodlebug” - a reference to the V1 flying bomb . Doubtless they will be nicknamed “G00gleBugs”.

 

Potential privacy issues are dismissed on the grounds that unlawful activity is being unmasked. For instance “addresses where grandparents have been reported missing to the police” and “where gardens ... clearly contain areas which have recently been dug over”.

 

The Assessment notes that 3D StreetView would “revive the services offered by [the home security] sector as burglars are likely to become users of the 3D system”.

 

 

 

PS - elsewhere, the Assessment deals with the inadvertent capturing of 3D images of adults engaging in nude sunbathing etc., in back gardens, indicating that applying the usual blurring algorithm just to the face of a sunbather “risks leaving other body parts exposed, in full 3D” - as recently discovered in Manchester's Temperance Street

 

PPS - LAs will be able to explore the dimensions of extensions at the back of houses to check planning rules have not been violated

 

PPPS - it is rumoured that "G00gle G0ggles" was originally considered as the name for G00gle Glass, to trade on the alliteration

[ashmk]

I look forward to the outcome, I like using street view and Earth.

[ashleechristen373]

If I drone goes flying pass me, I will have a heart attack and head for cover. Sounds very extreme be the outcome would be very cool.

[labrat]

please check the date...

[renegadeimp]

please check the date...

 

[sparkeyrjp]

2 & 3 , got you !!!!!!!

[BrettStones]

I heard on the radio, that google ar going inside buildings so you can do a kind of street view inside. Not sure about you but i dont think its very safe. saying that im forever checking street view to get a good look around places. Anyone else heard that?

[labrat]

some of the inside ones are already done

 

just a panoramic photo really