Earthmine's photo-truck totally tries to one-up Google, Microsoft

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Justin @ Jun 28th 2007 11:57AM

Although this is fairly new in the context that you mentioned. 3M has been doing this for years. They have a vehicle they take to cities across the nation, it maps using GPS (and wheel rotation) to 6 high resolution cameras. They then run it through processing software to figure out the various condition of roads and street signs.

It's pretty cool, the software they use literally lets you "drive" through the city.

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gishead @ Jan 8th 2008 5:59PM

Hey Justin
Is 3M really in this business? I can't find anything?

Here is the market as I see it

http://www.immersivemedia.com cool but low quality video http://www.ilookabout.com great quality lot of canadian and northern US coverage http://www.earthmine.com Looks good but does it work? http://books.google.com/help/maps/streetview/ used to use immersive but dumped them due to quality. 23 cities of so so quality http://www.mapjack.com/ no real coverage? does it work? http://www.imoveinc.com/ nice but defense orientated http://Everyscape.com fun but no real coverage - Microsoft and Yahoo is nowhere to be found on this last two years.

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Justin @ Jan 9th 2008 12:26AM

I wish I could tell you more... I know it was a partnership between 3M and another company, and it's purpose was very specific... I don't believe it was done on a "public" basis, more as part of a service for cities that they supply road signs for (to help figure out how many new signs they need).

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