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Streetview is awesome, but always a bit out of date.
Mount Streetview cameras on the roof of taxis. They're constantly driving all over the city anyway.
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http://www.virtualobserver.com.au/
System uses GPS to interrogate and display all mobile cameras for a given time and place. [AusCan531, Apr 20 2014]
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And how long before the casual exhibitionists figure out
which cabs are streaming live video to the internet? |
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Though they'd probably develop a filter for that eventually, like they do for faces. |
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And they'd be uploading stills all the time, so the filter could just postpone the update photo until the next pass. You might want to switch off at night, although an option to select a view corresponding to current local time might sometimes be a feature. |
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That would be a nice feature. See if an area is well lit and populated before travelling there. |
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might be an interesting way to monetize (or rebate)
installing CCTV cameras everywhere, even inside
properties. What's going on in Macy's on the 3rd floor
right now, search it, see it, and advertise around it |
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Great idea. Missed this. + |
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I suppose any picture missed due to face recognition could generate a tally of faces counted in the missed shot, and that quantity could be added to the "traffic report". |
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Or pixellate out faces and be snazzy. |
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Ooh look, place de la Bastille! There must be a party there... |
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Weight and drag? Are you kidding? Cameras that fit on my
thumbnail are walking around in the pocket of every
smartphone owner, and the big plastic thing on top of a
taxi that distinguishes it as a taxi is mostly hollow, save a
couple of light bulbs. Stick the camera(s) in there. The
hack's radio antenna creates
more drag that a camera would. |
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What's in Streetview for them right now? They seem to do awesome things and try to figure out how to make money from it later. |
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Oh, you mean the taxi driver. I imagine they'd pay the driver a bit each month for the roof rental. |
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Same as the advertisers who rent signage on that big
hollow plastic thing on the roof. |
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No, I haven't seen a Streetview car. I live 100 miles north of
nowhere, remember? The last time a Googlemobile went by
my house was before we moved here, unless they've
updated it recently. I try not to use Sreetview or Google
Earth beacause they're such bandwidth hogs. |
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On the other hand, we just got 3G last week. I should check
it out. |
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Nope, they haven't been around for the last few years.
They've updated the sattelite view, though! I can see my
Jeep and my deuce and my Dad's dead Porsches...must've
been late last summer, there's the family tractor outside
my shop with the front end torn apart. No VW, we must not
have been home. I wonder where we were? |
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[Bliss], your ability to remain consistently sweet and
polite confuses and troubles me. Praytell how you do
it. |
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Two words [Voice], heavily medicated. |
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This is basically baked [link]. A Perth based
company (Virtual Observer) has a system for
organizing mobile
camera systems on buses, taxis and so on so that
video can retrospectively be viewed for any given
place and time as collected by those camera-
equipped vehicles which happened to be passing
by. |
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When the Iraq war was on, I thought this would be
a brilliant solution for back-tracking the source of
car bombs. After an attack, the vehicle could be
retrospectively followed back to its point of origin
by viewing video in concentric circles for each
intersection it passed through all the way back to
where it was modified with explosives. Put as
many cameras on traffic lights, aerial drones,
buses, Humvees
taxis as you can to create as much coverage as
possible. I contacted the company in question
but didn't really want to end up in Baghdad myself
nor send any of my people there either so dropped
it. |
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