Google maps - Page 3

freeweed · #41 Posted **Apr 13, 2010, 6:41 PM**

Yeah, the 3D stuff came out on April 1st. A lot of the more recent imagery has it. Good old red/blue glasses to the rescue!

lubicon · #42 Posted **Apr 13, 2010, 6:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by freeweed

Yeah, the 3D stuff came out on April 1st. A lot of the more recent imagery has it. Good old red/blue glasses to the rescue!

I noticed that on some shots from around Calgary. Tried the glasses that I kept from the local theatre and they didn't make any difference, but they are not the red/blue type. Or maybe mu computer just wasn't up to the task.

freeweed · #43 Posted **Apr 13, 2010, 9:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by lubicon

I noticed that on some shots from around Calgary. Tried the glasses that I kept from the local theatre and they didn't make any difference, but they are not the red/blue type. Or maybe mu computer just wasn't up to the task.

Theatre glasses (modern ones, anyway) work based on polarization of the lenses, which separates the left/right images.

Streetview 3D (at least when I looked at it) works based on the oldschool red/blue filtering to separate the images.

Neither is compatible in any way.

Back in the day I played with PC-based 3D that uses shutters to achieve the same effect, if you don't mind the splitting headache from the flickering. Also incompatible with the 2 methods above - plus, you needed special glasses that plugged into your video card (to provide power and control timing). And software support for it.

I don't even know if you can have 3D come out of your computer that works on the polarization trick. I thought you had to have 2 separate projectors for this to work.

whiteford · #44 Posted **Nov 25, 2010, 3:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by Ramsayfarian

Best google street view shot ever!!!

thats one horny satellite. haha

Ferreth · #45 Posted **Nov 28, 2012, 5:55 AM**

I just happened to check Streetview this evening in Sunalta, and see this shiny new LRT station sitting there all of a sudden - that can mean only one thing - the new images for Calgary are live! Now, if only they could update the aerial images, I'd be a happy camper!

Sunalta Streetview by ferreth, on Flickr (Source, Google)

Rusty van Reddick · #46 Posted **Nov 28, 2012, 6:12 AM**

Great find! they got my house right after our bushes were trimmed back in April

Wigs · #47 Posted **Nov 28, 2012, 6:00 PM**

The resolution of Google Streetview has improved dramatically! Thanks for the update. I'm going to have many hours of fun in the future travelling virtually around the city

Ramsayfarian · #48 Posted **Nov 28, 2012, 10:26 PM**

Whilst I'm glad that there's an update, I'm kind of sad that I no longer appear in Street View. I now know how Marty McFly felt when he started to vanish from his family portrait.

Trans Canada · #49 Posted **May 3, 2014, 2:38 AM**

Google Maps was recently revamped, including integration between "satellite view" and "Earth view" (now integrated into one). Earth View now includes everything in 3d, it's really cool. If you have the new Google Maps enabled, check this: https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.04808.../data=!3m1!1e3. Based on how Google Maps/Earth has advanced in the past 5 years, I can only imagine how this will improve in the future.

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Originally Posted by Ramsayfarian

Whilst I'm glad that there's an update, I'm kind of sad that I no longer appear in Street View. I now know how Marty McFly felt when he started to vanish from his family portrait.

Street View now lets you look at all previous Street View images. See http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2014/0...reet-view.html

Fuzz · #50 Posted **May 3, 2014, 1:45 PM**

I saw the street view car downtown last week, so expect updated images in the next few months.

Ferreth · #51 Posted **May 3, 2014, 2:57 PM**

While I love all of these upgrades, I really wish Google would finally get high resolution imagery of our National Parks, especially Banff/Jasper. I've bugged Google about it from the POV of getting all of the world's Heritage Sites covered in high rez.

Ramsayfarian · #52 Posted **May 4, 2014, 4:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Trans Canada

Google Maps was recently revamped, including integration between "satellite view" and "Earth view" (now integrated into one). Earth View now includes everything in 3d, it's really cool. If you have the new Google Maps enabled, check this: https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.04808.../data=!3m1!1e3. Based on how Google Maps/Earth has advanced in the past 5 years, I can only imagine how this will improve in the future.

Street View now lets you look at all previous Street View images. See http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2014/0...reet-view.html

Thanks for the reminder, I saw that earlier, but forgot to check it out. Went to see if I'm back from the dead and I have. Kind of strange though, the one section where I am has reverted back to 2009, but the piece before or after is 2012. I can't change my section from 2009 to 2012.

Obviously some type of glitch in the matrix.