Google Earth/Street View/Bing/Apple Maps Imagery

[harls]

I'm hosting it on flickr.

The stats say the referrals came from maps.google.com.. but when I click the referral link it just brings me to the main page. Not sure exactly where people are finding the photo (I can't see it anywhere on that link Kitchissippi provided), but the hits are coming from there.

[Kitchissippi]

If you mouse over the top left hand side of the street view page on that link, a small inset photo appears labelled "user photos". If you navigate close to the location you took the picture, yours will probably pop up

[Rathgrith]

How dooes it located that? Is there a GPS trace in every picture or does Google read the tag to
all those images?

[eemy]

Originally Posted by Rathgrith

How dooes it located that? Is there a GPS trace in every picture or does Google read the tag to
all those images?

My guess is that it probably uses tags as a basis. Quite a few photos are also tagged with GPS coordinates, so it would likely be fairly simple to figure out that photos tagged with "war museum ottawa" are all located in the same location as long as at least one has a GPS coordinate.

Microsoft is actually working on technology which identifies landmarks in the photo and locates them from that information. I saw a demonstration of it awhile ago, and I believe that it is even capable of generating three dimensional models of the landmark from multiple photo sources.

[harls]

Originally Posted by Kitchissippi

If you mouse over the top left hand side of the street view page on that link, a small inset photo appears labelled "user photos". If you navigate close to the location you took the picture, yours will probably pop up

Yep, I looked all around the area for my photo and didn't see it. Oh well..

this is pic if anyone's interested.

[Cre47]

Guess this might be an occasionnal bug but notice in many shoots you can noticed what looks like a nasty crack on the pavement

Here's an example

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=...12,114.05,,0,5

Another bug is this, two buses in one

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=...59.964037&z=14

[c_speed3108]

Originally Posted by Cre47

Guess this might be an occasionnal bug but notice in many shoots you can noticed what looks like a nasty crack on the pavement

Here's an example

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=...12,114.05,,0,5

Another bug is this, two buses in one

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=...59.964037&z=14

Someone found an angle with two CN towers in Toronto.

[Proof Sheet]

Originally Posted by Cre47

My (new) area was certainly done before May 30, the previous owners were still there.

Check out this picture

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=4...182.5,,0,10.06

and look at the property for sale...scroll on the arrow to the east (left) and it looks like in the next photo the moving truck has arrived (leaves on the trees in that photo but not when the property is for sale).

[waterloowarrior]

massive update of Canada including eastern ontario and Ottawa places like stittsville that weren't covered in the previous update

[adam-machiavelli]

Everywhere in Canada is now displayed.

[waterloowarrior]

ignore the titles/search strings in these links...

Rear laneway of some of the Mattamy townhomes

Anyone know why all the trees were cut down here?

New RCVA building

"Recreation and Landfill Area"... doesn't really sound that appealing.

Good cheese made here

Perth: Great town to visit on a summer day, one of the few Ontario places I've seen that has "Yield to Pedestrian" signs throughout its main street

Classic Highway 7 sight #1

Classic Highway 7 sight #2


I grew up in rural Eastern Ontario and I'm amazed how many towns are covered by this update.

[Proof Sheet]

Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

ignore the titles/search strings in these links...

Rear laneway of some of the Mattamy townhomes

Anyone know why all the trees were cut down here?

New RCVA building

"Recreation and Landfill Area"... doesn't really sound that appealing.

Good cheese made here

Perth: Great town to visit on a summer day, one of the few Ontario places I've seen that has "Yield to Pedestrian" signs throughout its main street

Classic Highway 7 sight #1

Classic Highway 7 sight #2


I grew up in rural Eastern Ontario and I'm amazed how many towns are covered by this update.

I think you like Beau's beer. great updates...I'll be checking them out.

[harls]

Nice, I was waiting to see when they would finish the rest of Quebec city as well.. they only had the old part covered before.

[TransitZilla]

Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

ignore the titles/search strings in these links...

Anyone know why all the trees were cut down here?

Industrial development... http://www.thebrickyards.ca/TheBrickYards/index.html

They've yet to build anything... I think they just wanted to make the old brick factory visible from Bank St.

[Dado]

Lots of things have changed at Queen's University, like:

New buildings at Union and Division

University Avenue (they removed the semi-treed median!). I like the road texture but did they have to remove the median?

Stuart St has a new hall on it.

But one thing hasn't changed... this infernal gravelled-over island with its lack of curb cuts that still presents an obstacle to anyone on a wheelchair and an annoyance to everyone else:

Albert St at Bader Ln between Leonard and Victoria Halls

Kingston suffered from a minor version of 'Ottawa disease' in that its main CN railway station was relocated from

Montreal Street (no exactly prime downtown real estate)

to Counter Street (since renamed "John Counter Blvd") near Princess Street (sorry I couldn't get a better view - it's in the middle of a swamp...)

Just outside Smiths Falls, VIA is doing some trackwork. I'm wondering if this is to be the new station location; if so it's a bit of a sad location for it:

Hwy 15 @ Smiths Falls Subdivision crossing

I think this is the old (CP) station, on Victoria Ave.

The Railway Museum in Smiths Falls at the old CN Station - pan to the right and note that the tracks still go across the street, literally to nowhere.

One of the oddest sights around:

The counterweight railway drawbridge over the Rideau Canal in Smiths Falls permanently locked in the up position.

It's too bad that Canadian Northern took this line to Napanee rather than Kingston, because had they gone to Kingston instead it would in all likelihood still be in operation, providing faster trips to Toronto. Of course doing that now has been made more difficult...

Highway sprawl on the railway corridor at Hwy 15 south of Smiths Falls

[waterloowarrior]

On top of the massive streetview update, we just got some new Google Earth aerial imagery for Ottawa (not in Google Maps yet). Imagery date is Sept 30, 2008 (looks to be newer than the 2008 stuff on EMAPS). Highway 7, Kanata Lakes, Soho West, Fairwinds, Mondrian, HPII.... lots of changes throughout the city.

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archi..._february.html

It also goes pretty far in Quebec... check out the A-50 extension!

edit: even better, it looks like large swaths of Southern Ontario and Quebec have new satellite imagery. Can't really see too much compared to orthophotos, but much better than what was there before.

[eemy]

Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

ignore the titles/search strings in these links...

Rear laneway of some of the Mattamy townhomes

Anyone know why all the trees were cut down here?

New RCVA building

"Recreation and Landfill Area"... doesn't really sound that appealing.

Good cheese made here

Perth: Great town to visit on a summer day, one of the few Ontario places I've seen that has "Yield to Pedestrian" signs throughout its main street

Classic Highway 7 sight #1

Classic Highway 7 sight #2


I grew up in rural Eastern Ontario and I'm amazed how many towns are covered by this update.

Those Highway 7 sights really remind me of rural Kentucky.

[adam-machiavelli]

The new VIA station will be here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...17.97,,0,-0.44 It's part of my Master's Report so I have the site plan. It's pretty depressing that they're moving it way out there.

[Dado]

So the trackwork I identified is indeed part of it... more like the approaches. It seems kind of wide for just a second track all that way out from the station site itself though and it seems to be wide "on the wrong side" if it's for parking, unless VIA has decided to shove parking further from the road (?).

Do you have any idea why they're moving the station at all and why here? If anyone had any ambitions of using the CP Belleville Sub for passenger service to Perth or beyond this station is still in the wrong place (it would have to be even further out of town, beyond the Hwy 15 crossing). It seems really retrograde to pull an Ottawa or Kingston on yet another community.

[c_speed3108]

Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

ignore the titles/search strings in these links...

Rear laneway of some of the Mattamy townhomes

Wow..I like rear laneways conceptually, but this is going to have serious snow removal issues. You need to leave more space, or just do single car garages or something.