Google Hype: Google Maps

Google Hype: Google maps - Great post on Virtual Earth, Live Search and mapping technologies by James Senior...check it out!

Search and High Performance Computing — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:24:58 GMT

Just a quick sign posting to James Senior's blog on mapping and the differing technologies from Google

re: Google Hype: Google Maps

Blake Handler — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:45:26 GMT

Just think how cool Live Maps is going to be when the "Street Level" images are completed! (^_^)

http://preview.local.live.com/

re: Google Hype: Google Maps

James Senior — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:53:25 GMT

Then stick it in a device that i can take in my car and you have one compelling product! Is anyone from TomTom listening? :-)

re: Google Hype: Google Maps

tony roth — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:35:17 GMT

James,

mini-itx car pc with xpe with usb gps puck

and live maps and a very little code and BOOM tomtom doesn't look so good. Add vwifi and things get real screwey as to what can be done...

re: Google Hype: Google Maps

tim scarfe — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:30:21 GMT

hey dude,

there is also this c9 video about their 3d technology. apart from the fact that you can fly around using an xbox controller and they sell ad-space in the world of 3d: the totally cool thing is their method of 3d buildings.

msft aquired some company a couple of years ago which flies planes around the cities and uses some clever software to render the 3d buildings and you get proper textured overlays.

this may not still be the case but on google earth you just see big grey boxes which have to be drawn manually using their sketch up product.

on the flip side; google earth has the community thing with keyhole and that adds massive value.

I would like to see msft host their 3d stuff in a rich/native stand-alone app.

re: Google Hype: Google Maps

James Senior — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:12:45 GMT

Hey Tim

the texture skins are the hardest thing to do, which is why Google only have grey boxes at the moment. The community thing is cool with google earth but there is also value in having it in browser. Also, you can get Virtual Earth in Outlook so when you are planning your meetings you can check out the location in 3D :-)

@Tony

When are you bringing the product out? :)

re: Google Hype: Google Maps

tony roth — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:33:43 GMT

flippin if I could find some better/cheaper lcd's with touch I'd be more inclined to publish the whole enchilada. What I'm doing is just pasting serveral different technologies together nothing special except the vwifi stuff, think free onstar!

re: Google Hype: Google Maps

James Senior — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:43:16 GMT

That's the beauty of it! It's the ulimate hardware/software mashup... I'll look into LCD's :-)

re: Google Hype: Google Maps

tony roth — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:39:35 GMT

I haven't yet played with vista yet but will be dl'ing (via ms) asap. My question is did they do anything with vwifi in vista?

re: Google Hype: Google Maps

James Senior — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:03:08 GMT

Tony,

Virtual Wifi? Not even sure what that is mate! Can you point me to a good resource?

James

G.0

Views on Windows Vista — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:44:41 GMT

I wrote recently about the Google Hype particularly on mapping technology and Mike has continued the