Monday, September 21st 2009
Google Streetview - Behind the scenes
We were all really excited here at ICM when we first saw that dark Vauxhall Astra with roof-mounted camera cruising the streets of Leeds creating what we now know as Streetview.
Streetview is the combination of Google Maps and Google Earth; an interesting tool allowing the user to view any area of a map in almost 360 degrees. But how exactly were all those thousands upon thousands of images processed, retouched and stitched together to give us the great end-result.
Google Japan have made this fantastic little video to explain it:
Posted by Richard on Monday 21st of September 2009 at 5:29pm
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