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cookie_monster

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ok, so im sure you tecky people know about all this already, but we've having a play in the office with this new gizmo....and we're suitablly impressed and have just spent the last hour finding various places we know to show how well it works.

unfortunately, stafford isnt on the list yet- but sheffield is! :P


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cookie_monster

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yeah, if you search for an address in sheffield though you get a little orange bod in the navigation box at the top.

click and drag the bod to the bit of the road you want to look at....and let the wonderment commence!


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#chaplife
oh, street view! yeah, i've been meaning to check that out.. just been having a play with it.. shame stafford's not on there, like you say..
 
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cookie_monster

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its fun! (we are rather bored :teef:)

ive shown people my aunties flat and the pub my cousin works in london...and where ill be spending a bit of time next weekend! :D


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FooFighter

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I believe they had a lot of issues with certain places in America and had to photoshop people out.
i.e. people exiting porn shops, strip clubs etc
 
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Monquey

Dressed like Cadfael
Andreas Rex said:
That's wicked! Cheers cookie...just doing a tour of my previous abodes in the big smoke!
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They must have been shooting London between April and June last year. I know this because where I am currently sitting is pictured as a lump of scaffolding, and my flat doesn't have window boxes.

The scope of this is stunning. I hope they take it out of just streets and do rural areas, mountains, hell everywhere.
 
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#chaplife
ok, i understand how people accidentally double-post, but how did you manage to do it with 13 minutes inbetween each one?? lol
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Post, press back, go make a coffee, come back, think you aint pressed submit, press it again, double post. :p
 
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Monquey

Dressed like Cadfael
dirtybobby said:
ok, i understand how people accidentally double-post, but how did you manage to do it with 13 minutes inbetween each one?? lol
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We need this:
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Says it all.

^^^^ Edit: What he said.
 
My Name is URL

My Name is URL

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FPMSL, the bloke being sick is on Curtain Road in Shoreditch, Hackney, London.

You can still see him in some shots, just not the one that looks straight on at him.
 
MyCult

MyCult

SEO to the FACE
I know this is a Google Maps comes to UK thread but this seemed the place to stick this mildly related article (fairly sure this only rolled out in the US so far)

Search Engine Land said:
Since it was introduced more than two years ago, Microsoft’s innovative Photosynth technology has been “under-leveraged.†I’ve written a number of times about Photosynth and its potential. Now, according to an article in Fast Company, Microsoft is going to compete more aggressively with Google StreetView by soliciting user-generated photos and then geotagging and Photosynthing them.
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Microsoft Taking On Google Street View With “GeoSynth�
 
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MyCult said:
I know this is a Google Maps comes to UK thread but this seemed the place to stick this mildly related article (fairly sure this only rolled out in the US so far)

Search Engine Land said:
Since it was introduced more than two years ago, Microsoft’s innovative Photosynth technology has been “under-leveraged.†I’ve written a number of times about Photosynth and its potential. Now, according to an article in Fast Company, Microsoft is going to compete more aggressively with Google StreetView by soliciting user-generated photos and then geotagging and Photosynthing them.
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Microsoft Taking On Google Street View With “GeoSynth�
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i didn't understand a word of what you just quoted, so apologies if this is wrong, but wouldn't this be better in tek-monkey's photosynth thread?

i'm guessing he didn't getting any replies in there because no-one understood what the hell it was then, either lol..


edit: actually no, i get what you're saying, and it would make sense to be here.. basically, microsoft are going to get users to upload photos of places, and then link them to the corresponding geographical location on their own mapping technology? dunno why they have to complicate it with this "photosynth" business lol..
 
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