Going further in geo visualization
I read an article about Everyscape. Everyscape tries to give its users an immersive experience by stitching together a set of panoramic photographs, in contrast with the satellite imagery that is being used by other tools such as Google Earth. I played a bit with the NY demo and was pretty impressed.
Apparently their web-based software is based on the initial software by the founder’s previous company, Mok3. There is a great video that shows a tour through a long hallway at MIT which was constructed of only 20 panoramic photographs. I found another (less impressive) Youtube video of Mok3′s software:
It reminded me a bit of Microsoft’s Photosynth, which was presented at TED this year:
Tags: geo, visualization, web2.0
November 12th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Great stuff.
Jozilla blog really is one of my favourite blogs, always good for an hour of two of new interesting topics (like this one) to find out
Keep up the spirit!
November 13th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Thanks! My objective is to blog at least once every two days, which seems to work for me up until now. And I still have some stuff lying around to write about