[LINK] Google StreetView Launched in Oz

[Jan Whitaker]

At 12:26 PM 5/08/2008, Sylvano wrote:
>It will certainly be interesting to watch the information updating cycle
>that is employed now that Google has donned this yoke universal image
>delivery.  Do they do wholesale sweeps every so often, or "patches" as
>known changes are identified, for example.

I was wondering how they plan to do that, too, given the number of 
shops that change over time at the 'small business' level. Houses 
aren't much of a problem, but businesses will require a bit more 
updating. It's not just the architecture, but the meaning engendered 
in the images that will have value and accuracy is important.

I also ran into another spin-off, embedding google maps in other 
information sources. This one was a story in The Age today about a 
light plane that crashed into a house in Oregon. I usually have 
google scripts turned off, and had turned them on for this google 
maps thing. Then I clicked the story in the Age and all this Google 
stuff started loading -- data bloat! I quickly turned it off and then 
had to wait for the new version of the page without google to load. 
It was a bit of a pain. But it's also a way to use up data quotas 
quite easily without needing to and without even knowing it's going to load.

I wonder how long it will be before other information servers will 
incorporate images of the homes of people or locations discussed in 
their stories.

Jan


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