Mike Liebhold wrote:
One of Amazon's lead engineers on the photomap project showed up at
our little Geowanker's gathering last night in San Francisco. It turns
out that the project was never fully supported, and that Amazon has
lost interest in a very complex and expensive battle with Google,
Microsoft, and Yahoo, to compete with mulitmedia map services.
Meanwhile the others are forging ahead with much more elaborate plans
to offer fully 3D navigable maps. Think of Sketch-Up buildings on
Google Earth with full textured, photorealisitc surfaces. It has been
rumored, for some time that Microsoft Virtual Earth has been gathering
Lidar 3D imagery for exactly this application, And yesterday, at the
deCarta ( Telcontar) developers conference, Teleatlas showed some
spectacular 3D photorealistic maps with they are building.
-Mike
Mike,
Now what I want to know, most importantly, is how in the world do you
have time to go to so many conferences, meetings, and events, yet still
make a living? Share the secret ;)
Kevin
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