Monday, December 31, 2012

How did they take the images in Google Street View?

Q. It has always fascinated me how they take the images on Google Street View. So how do they?

I doubt it'd be from the sky because it'd only give a birds-eye view of the location and it wouldn't be cameras otherwise i'd be seeing camera all in my street.

A. They pay people who are willing to work for Googlemaps as freelance photographers and researchers. These people travel the country looking for relatively unknown and off the map small businesses, taking pictures, getting information about it, and sending it off to Google.

As far as the 360 imaging pictures that they provide from the street level of residential housing, most of those are taken by Google vehicles that travel the streets with a "bubble" camera (looks like a security camera) on the top of them that take 360 degrees of pictures and splice them together in a large panoramic. Occasionally if you scroll all the way down in the pictures you can see the edge of the top of the vehicles

What technique does the Chinese government use to make images in Google search not available?
Q. Red crosses often show up during my searching on Google images search. These red crosses indicate image not available. Sometimes a whole search results page is full of red crosses, means 20 images are not available. I've heard that this is maybe due to network blockage since i'm in China. But how does the China government achieve this? What's the technical details behind it? Lots of time my images search keywords are not in the black list, which means my keywords are not sensitive. What technique does the Chinese government use to make images in Google search not available?
It is not Google earth, it is Google images.

A. no technique really. they just send a list of areas they dont want google earth to display, and google doesnt show them.

simple as that mate.

On facebook, why does my page all of a sudden go to images google?
Q. its been happening a lot lately and I can't seem to get it to stop. I'll open a page up and then within 5 seconds it goes to images google. Does anyone know the reason why and how I can stop it?

A. ...i dont think thats normal
maybe theres something wrong with ur computer?




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