Google Maps Street View Car (moved)
- Posted by B Jones on February 26th, 2008 - Comment on this Post »
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February 27th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Looks more to me like it’s the guy’s private car with a kit strapped onto it and a sticker smacked on the side, and not an “official” GoogleMobile.
But quite interesting! I wonder of much time it takes from the car films something, to it actually appears on Google.
February 27th, 2008 at 8:22 am
I know. It does look pretty home made, with the tire and 2×4 monitor mount, and commercially available parts, but I added a few more pictures at the bottom showing the entire fleet. You can see that it’s the same car.
February 27th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Awesome post!
February 27th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
what exactly is displayed on the monitor? is it just for internet use or does it display a map of every street that needs to be covered?
February 27th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
I’d imagine it’s probably just a video monitor. That’s just my guess. I do wonder what the numbers are for though.
February 29th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Nice.
Too bad most of the addresses in Chicago don’t match the right houses.
March 1st, 2008 at 7:03 am
I saw a Google car in Sydney (Australia) near my work. I just smiled and waved
March 1st, 2008 at 10:21 am
It’s amazing how much of the country they’ve got street views for now. Just another step towards indexing everything in the world. I heard rumors that their next project will be to sneak into the home of every citizen of the planet earth while they’re sleeping and download their memories and knowledge. It’s called Google Brains. It’s currently in beta, of course.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:27 am
The Google logo looks like it is a bit misplaced. Nice to see that the guy let you take pictures anyway!
March 6th, 2008 at 6:51 am
If he’s covering the whole state does this mean he is going to drive down every single road, circle and rural dirt path in S.C.?
I don’t know how that works.
March 6th, 2008 at 8:59 am
@Samsara
The day I took these pictures was the last day he worked. When I talked to the driver the night before, I didn’t ask him how thoroughly he was covering the sate, but I wish I had. He did say that the day I took the pictures was his last day, and that he was finished with the job.
March 8th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Interesting…here on the East Coast, the Google Street View cars are black Volkswagen Beetles, and the mount on top of the car is more impressive (it looked like they used multiple cameras). This is based on a car I saw in Boston.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
thats funny..that rigging is fairly ghetto. I work in graphic printing and display and thats called an octanorm system. Its basically a series of custom size cut alluminum beams and they are usually used to frame out a display booth. Not what I would use to mount a camera onto a car but whatever!
March 12th, 2008 at 1:08 am
wow wonder if they will map my city for once bastards but non the less kool
March 12th, 2008 at 3:45 am
so.. discreet
March 12th, 2008 at 4:53 am
It looks like you are missing point…with geo-referencing of the data (images, etc). First of all you are using only GPS and it won’t work in urban environments, it will give you some set of coordinates but they will be of with 10-50 …or more metres. This system look like home made prototype for home made application and if Google wish to have it looks like they do not now much about positioning of the data or they will link the images manually. I hope it is not one more propaganda approach …if you wish to do it right you need to have GPS/INS integration + Kalman filtering + full link to GIS road database. I suggest to ook for references. Recently all Istanbul old city was done like this + with 3D laser scanning over 50 000 buildings and 400 km of streets were done this way… beside this over 50 000 km of streets in North and Central Europe. Anyway, good luck! KG
March 18th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
What I want to know is why I can’t find a job listed on GoogleJobs for driving one of these! For someone who loves driving, it sounds like the ideal job!