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I am stunned. Seriously, I don't know how I feel. I am on information numb overload. I did get to see the front door of my favorite restaurant in Vegas tho.
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This is my favorite bar. You can see where the roof burned down two years ago, and there still isn't a roof there. They had to cut the bar in half, and not the best half. Posts: 2596 | Registered: Jan 2006
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Going down Kendall Drive in Miami, the photo has a shot like every twenty yards or so. I can actually see my house in one of the photos.
Also, for the record, the photos are rather recent. The one of my neioghborhood can't be more than four months old, as the public library across the street is already being built in the photo.
I can't begin to imagine how many resources they have to do this. The disk space and bandwidth is unimaginable to me, not to mention that the photos come back instantly.
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Oh, the disk space they have to spare. They use huge farms of off the shelf PCs for processing/to hold their search information in memory. This means they have a lot of disk space to play with, at a few hundred gigs a PC.
As for the bandwidth, they've been buying that up like crazy and putting datacenters all over the country.
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quote: Also, for the record, the photos are rather recent. The one of my neioghborhood can't be more than four months old, as the public library across the street is already being built in the photo.
My link was not intended to show Google photos, which is rather old, it actually shows images from street cameras. Isn't it real time? You can see cars driving and people on walks.
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Freaky! You can see the front of my apartment building. I wonder how often they update it. Some of the same cars from the picture are parked on the street right now!
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That could simply mean they belong to people on your block, who regularly park in about the same places, neh?
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I'm still a bit bothered that my neighbor's driveway has a street name when you put google maps on hybrid.
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If you like this, be sure to check out Google Earth with the Google Community layer up. It has much wider coverage since people can tag photos anywhere on Earth. Its surprisingly thorough, especially in vacation areas.
Another interesting thing to check out is the geotagging facility in Picasa linked with Google Earth, its really neat and a nice way of organising your photos.
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