Epic Knowledge transfer! Computer vision and geo media in 2008

There is a new media technology convergence going on right now that is so epic in scale, I figured I would blog it. Perhaps only to track this strange realm of hyper learning and research I'm experiencing. Seriously, the knowledge gained in the past few days is astonishing.
But let me start with a simple test of my Google Earth casting system...

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Minneapolis City Hall.

If you hadn't much experience with Google Earth, you've been missing some fun! But I can understand. After all, it's only 3.5 years old.
Well just recently, they made it possible to embed a Google Earth window, right inside a browser. SO wow!~ Very cool. You can show people 3d places, just as you would show a photo. And the program itself is not required to load. It's just a super fast plug-in. Great!
(I'm still learning how to use the api, so thanks to GoogleEarthHacks, for enabling the code)

Street View is also able to be embedded in a page. They made this available last Chistmas. I really should have been doing cool stuff with it all summer, but other work was being done. Anyhow, you're getting neat directory type sites showing you all sorts of list of Street View locations, as follows...

There was something very interesting we Minnesotans found when street view came out. We found that the Google Driver had been mapping before and after the I35w Bridge collapse. The the extent that you can simulate a drive over the bridge the day before it fell. Apparently, they were spraying chem trails that day too, but thats another post.

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Click the arrows and pan to navigate across the old bridge. Notice all the construction vehicles and process.

So I'll put up more posts exploring other new visualizations and media tech with I'm finding amazing. Check back. In the mean time, Don't let the packs of "entertainment" robots hunt you down!
PEACE.