Comments on: Why did Google create Street View?

By: mickey

mickey — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:00:44 +0000

I’ll admit I was wrong on this one (this post was from three years ago). I still think that it’ll eventually be essentially replaced with the 3D buildings/trees, but it’ll take longer than I expected.

Two things have gone differently than I expected:
1 — 3D buildings have been slower to come along. They’ve certainly added a ton, but there’s still a long way to go.
2 — More importantly, they’ve added a LOT more Street View imagery than I would have expected. The depth of coverage has become staggering. For 3D buildings to replace it, they’d need pretty much full 3D coverage across the globe, which we’re obviously a long way from.

By: mrfoxtalbot

mrfoxtalbot — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:31:38 +0000

I have to disagre with you here. Street view has so much more detail that GE´s 3D Buildings. From the top of my head: If I am looking at a specific business/shop/bar I am not going to get much info from the 3D model.
See ya!

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By: Google Earth in 2010 « Earth to Bobby

Google Earth in 2010 « Earth to Bobby — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:02:20 +0000

[...] a few days ago) and that seems likely to continue. I said a few years ago that I thought StreetView might simply be a temporary solution, as 3D modeled worlds would eventually be more useful. I still think that’s true, but [...]

By: Guy R.

Guy R. — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:14:50 +0000

I too thought that StreetView was interesting but wondered why they went that route considering they own Google Earth. As a stop gap they could have generated streetviews from GE instead of using immersive techs products with all its potential issues (Privacy, and visual noise to name two). But there are great things to be learned from this product. First, it’s very easy to navigate and change perspectives. Second, it offers a step toward providing real-time 3D imagery. Third, now we know it can be done. Expect other way cool products to appear because of this!