any guesses how google will use KeyHole?

[chickchick]

so google bought keyhole yesterday. pretty amazing aerial imagery maps.. 3D stuff.. & in most cities a resolution of less than 1 meter. Wondering how google will use KeyHole. Most likely with its local search. Any other ways google can/might integrate this cool stuff?

 

[apac]

Maybe a mapquest type of locator with actual imagery rather than city maps?

edit: oh you already listed that heh. I bet they could superimpose a locator map on top of them, scaled correctly.

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

"World Search" option for finding lost socks.

 

[hevnsnt]

anyone have the download link for it, I want to play!

 

[chickchick]

wondering how cool it would be if cameras can have a gps device & along with date, it also records the latitude/longitude. And when u upload the pictures to picasso (someday they might have a site where u can upload pictures), they will show u exactly where the picture was taken.. the building/beach/mountain or wherever in 3D. fond memories wud come to life.

 

[chickchick]

oops.. i just gave away my million dollar idea.. oh well.

 

[hevnsnt]

lol

 

[Rudee]

Google will eventually dominate the map search like that of mapquest, mapblast, etc. It's just a matter of time.

 

[chickchick]

Originally posted by: Rudee
Google will eventually dominate the map search like that of mapquest, mapblast, etc. It's just a matter of time.

well.. yeah maybe.. but mapquest, mapblast have their own uses/charm.. driving directions and stuff are well evolved & keyhole doesn't necessarily shine when it comes to finding directions.. does it?

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: chickchick
wondering how cool it would be if cameras can have a gps device & along with date, it also records the latitude/longitude. And when u upload the pictures to picasso (someday they might have a site where u can upload pictures), they will show u exactly where the picture was taken.. the building/beach/mountain or wherever in 3D. fond memories wud come to life.

Check out wwmx.org, sample page.

No sat pictures, but there are other programs that will do that.


Hopefully it will have at least something like terraserver, but with worldwide data.

 

[welst10]

Originally posted by: chickchick
oops.. i just gave away my million dollar idea.. oh well.

lol. you're a pretty funny chick. pics?

 

[alexeikgb]

Man.... this thing is pretty crazy..... I just zoomed in on my house.....

But it's fvckin slow as hell

 

[chickchick]

Originally posted by: welst10

Originally posted by: chickchick
oops.. i just gave away my million dollar idea.. oh well.

lol. you're a pretty funny chick. pics?

sure.. will give it to u oneday when they have the cameras with built-in gps & when picasso & keyhole will be integrated so that u can know where i am and u can haunt me.

 

[chickchick]

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: chickchick
wondering how cool it would be if cameras can have a gps device & along with date, it also records the latitude/longitude. And when u upload the pictures to picasso (someday they might have a site where u can upload pictures), they will show u exactly where the picture was taken.. the building/beach/mountain or wherever in 3D. fond memories wud come to life.

Check out wwmx.org, sample page.

No sat pictures, but there are other programs that will do that.


Hopefully it will have at least something like terraserver, but with worldwide data.

nice stuff.. the next step would be to take it a step further & make it automatic, painless & appealing to general users.

 

[alexeikgb]

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: chickchick
wondering how cool it would be if cameras can have a gps device & along with date, it also records the latitude/longitude. And when u upload the pictures to picasso (someday they might have a site where u can upload pictures), they will show u exactly where the picture was taken.. the building/beach/mountain or wherever in 3D. fond memories wud come to life.

Check out wwmx.org, sample page.

No sat pictures, but there are other programs that will do that.


Hopefully it will have at least something like terraserver, but with worldwide data.

It looks like it uses the images from terraserver..... I checked both and they are identical between the Keyhole and terraserver

 

[chickchick]

Originally posted by: alexeikgb

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: chickchick
wondering how cool it would be if cameras can have a gps device & along with date, it also records the latitude/longitude. And when u upload the pictures to picasso (someday they might have a site where u can upload pictures), they will show u exactly where the picture was taken.. the building/beach/mountain or wherever in 3D. fond memories wud come to life.

Check out wwmx.org, sample page.

No sat pictures, but there are other programs that will do that.


Hopefully it will have at least something like terraserver, but with worldwide data.

It looks like it uses the images from terraserver..... I checked both and they are identical between the Keyhole and terraserver

yeah.. but seems that they use lots of other sources aswell

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: alexeikgb

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: chickchick
wondering how cool it would be if cameras can have a gps device & along with date, it also records the latitude/longitude. And when u upload the pictures to picasso (someday they might have a site where u can upload pictures), they will show u exactly where the picture was taken.. the building/beach/mountain or wherever in 3D. fond memories wud come to life.

Check out wwmx.org, sample page.

No sat pictures, but there are other programs that will do that.


Hopefully it will have at least something like terraserver, but with worldwide data.

It looks like it uses the images from terraserver..... I checked both and they are identical between the Keyhole and terraserver

But it would be nice to have some Canadian data, like Terraserver had when it first started.

 

[Rudee]

Originally posted by: chickchick

Originally posted by: Rudee
Google will eventually dominate the map search like that of mapquest, mapblast, etc. It's just a matter of time.

well.. yeah maybe.. but mapquest, mapblast have their own uses/charm.. driving directions and stuff are well evolved & keyhole doesn't necessarily shine when it comes to finding directions.. does it?

I'm thinking Google will make it have both maps like mapquest, as well as all the features that keyhole can offer.

 

[chickchick]

noone wanna tickle their imagination more?

 

[conjur]

$30 for it? $10 and I'd do it.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: alexeikgb

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: chickchick
wondering how cool it would be if cameras can have a gps device & along with date, it also records the latitude/longitude. And when u upload the pictures to picasso (someday they might have a site where u can upload pictures), they will show u exactly where the picture was taken.. the building/beach/mountain or wherever in 3D. fond memories wud come to life.

Check out wwmx.org, sample page.

No sat pictures, but there are other programs that will do that.


Hopefully it will have at least something like terraserver, but with worldwide data.

It looks like it uses the images from terraserver..... I checked both and they are identical between the Keyhole and terraserver

Images on Terraserver are public domain (you can use them freely as long as you display "Courtesy of the USGS" near/on the image).

what I would LOVE is a map service which looked like this

edit for typo