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Map the Earth in 3D

12 December 2006 No Comment

What if every photo you took recorded the location from which it was taken in longitude and latitude?

Go a step further, what if it also recorded the height off the ground and the vector the camera was pointed towards?

Then you could draw a bezier curve through each and every photo you ever took along with the time it was taken.

Now imagine you tied them together with PhotoSynth[LINK].

Now imagine you are out with your friends and they all do that. You’d have a really cool sort of weaving of threads throughout the day.

Then after a year you could literally "fly" down a thread of your photos. You could remember the entire year. It’d be like a weird clockwork orange type event.

Then imagine you overlayed this data on Google Earth. And imagine Google Earth was advanced to a point where every landmark and every piece of scenery was defined.

Then combined with overlays of your photos  and the data from PhotoSynth you could actually reverse engineer the 3D information for the Google Maps. Upload this and you have an MASSIVELY multi-player data contribution network.

This’d map the entire world, it’s experiences and the timelines of everyone on the planet! and then…and then…the end.

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