Comments on: Cool Service But…. http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/cool-service-but-141/ Sports News - Tech Reviews - Entertainment - Life Tips for EveryJoe Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:19:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steven http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/cool-service-but-141/comment-page-1/#comment-330270 Steven Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:12:57 +0000 http://mapleleaftwo.com/cool-service-but/#comment-330270 It isn't that high tech. They use a car with a video camera mounted on top and map the location to the video feed with GPS. It isn’t that high tech. They use a car with a video camera mounted on top and map the location to the video feed with GPS.

]]> By: Samuel Bouchard http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/cool-service-but-141/comment-page-1/#comment-330411 Samuel Bouchard Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:23:19 +0000 http://mapleleaftwo.com/cool-service-but/#comment-330411 I can see usefulness for the cities themselves. They have to take pictures of every building for their records and their home evaluation (for the taxes). It could save them a tremendous amount of work if they could link the pictures to the adresses. A nice improve in that case would require some artificial vision and maybe an actuated camera, to better fit the buildings in the pictures. As you metion, it could be nice to integrate to real estate websites. The surroundings of a home are really important for the buyers. For the technology used, maybe it's not that high tech. It might just be a match between the time clock in the camera and in the GPS. It is widely used by amateurs to geotag their pictures as I mentionned here: http://www.lablogatoire.com/2007/03/29/comment-geo-positionner-des-photos/ I can see usefulness for the cities themselves. They have to take pictures of every building for their records and their home evaluation (for the taxes). It could save them a tremendous amount of work if they could link the pictures to the adresses. A nice improve in that case would require some artificial vision and maybe an actuated camera, to better fit the buildings in the pictures.

As you metion, it could be nice to integrate to real estate websites. The surroundings of a home are really important for the buyers.

For the technology used, maybe it’s not that high tech. It might just be a match between the time clock in the camera and in the GPS. It is widely used by amateurs to geotag their pictures as I mentionned here: http://www.lablogatoire.com/2007/03/29/comment-geo-positionner-des-photos/

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