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Interactive Street Level Mapping a View of StreetSlide

This is an intriguing evolution of how to interact with street level imagery. Rather than a panoramic experience, this is a bit more like "drive-by window-shopping". Apparently the official term for this is "multi perspective strip panoramas".



A quick "Cut & Paste" Highlight:


" ... Street Slide ... combines the best aspects of the immersive nature of bubbles with the overview provided by multi perspective strip panoramas. ... a seamless transition between bubbles and multi-perspective panoramas. .... As the user slides sideways, the multi-perspective panorama is constructed and rendered dynamically to simulate either a perspective or hyper-perspective view. This provides a strong sense of parallax, which adds to the immersion. ... [f]inally we integrate annotations and a mini-map within the user interface to provide geographic information as well additional affordances for navigation...."

 

Credits:
Full credits to Flowing data for bring this to my attention and StreetSlide for putting the site & technology together.
Johannes Kopf, Billy Chen, Richard Szeliski, Michael F. Cohen  - Microsoft Research

The Geo-Spatial Revolution Project: How "geo" is changing our world - from Penn State

Had to post this one.  My under-grad was from Penn State in broadcasting and my Masters of Science & career work in geo-spatial.  Interesting series on the importance of geo-spatial - a new series the folks at Penn State Public Broadcasting.