Re:Introducing Google Earth 6—the next generation of realism
by boucher on Monday November 29, 2010 @06:28PM
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Fair enough, but do they collect their own aerial data? I was under the impression it's all collected through by third parties. Also, do they use anything other than satellite imagery right now? Is LIDAR effective at that range?
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Re:Introducing Google Earth 6—the next generation of realism
by wooster on Monday November 29, 2010 @07:21PM
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Yeah, they have some aerial data. For example: zoom in on downtown San Jose in satellite view. The perspective view is aerial photography, and is copyrighted by Google.
Although, now that I've done more digging, it looks like they're using satellite imagery for at least some of this, along with LIDAR and infrared techniques: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...