Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore
by tannhaeuser on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:41AM
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Just a couple weeks ago, Google announced they're going to re-photograph Street View in my country, though, which is still running on the initial 2007ish data. How would that be profitable? The idea of virtual ads placed onto pseudo 3D walls was already present when Street View started but apparently didn't deliver economically. Maybe they want to break resistance this time around as they had lots of data protection complaints/requests for blocking a particular lot from displaying unblurred at my place?
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Are you talking about Germany? Google never stopped creating new images in Germany, they've just decided they would put the new images online (which they already did).
Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore
by johannes1234321 on Monday August 07, 2023 @05:28AM
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Mind that they don't only take pictures. The cars are full of sensors. From GPS to verify coordinates of roads, over Wifi to scan SSIDs for locating devices without GPS to LIDAR to scan 3D features and probably a lot more ...
And all the pictures have things like street signs and traffic lights and fire hydrants which people have been helping locate with recaptchas.
Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore
by commonlisp94 on Monday August 07, 2023 @10:05AM
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I think this a myth told by marketing.
They already know the photos have the objects they are interested in. You still think they are working on detecting motorcycles buses and signs?
The recaptcha part doesn't even depend on recognition, it's just a statistical comparison with what other humans clicked on given the same response + some javascript pointer and browser analysis.