On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Sjors Provoost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone (legal and dev), > > Now that the Google Street view imagery is growing pretty rapidly, I > wonder if we could ask Google for permission to use the imagery to > [...] > > Things they could be useful for (for the dev people to talk about): > * fetch street names from the signs > * find mail boxes > * estimate road quality > * get the exact width of the road (since we 'know' the camera settings) > * get the exact coordinates of features: if we know where the camera > is, what direction it is looking at and typical size of a feature, we > know exactly where it is. Gets even better with triangulation.
This Google Tech Talk is quite relevant in this context: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7896376816571396341 Sjors _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
