 Poster: A snowHead
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How is street-view done. I have seen the cars with the strange video cameras on the top on the TV.
Is there anything like this, but not car based.
OK, almost certainly not like a helmet-cam, but maybe a hand held version that would work on a piste
Any ideas anyone
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Wayne, there's a skidoo-mounted version that Google used to create a 'Streetview' of the Olympic pistes in Whistler.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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There was another system that someone on here posted about a couple of months ago, I think it was for an iphone app.
I can't remember what it was called in order to do the search though.
Candidate for vague post of the month?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| tiffin wrote: |
| Candidate for vague post of the month? |
 Not really (maybe, sort of)
Just interest if it could be done. Will almost certainly come to nothing but...
OK, rephrase the question.
What sort of camera, if available at all, could produce something like street view on a website.
Someone must know.
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Don't know what google use but its probably a bigger, better version of something like this - http://www.0-360.com/
But I think that just does a 360 shot of 1 position, the clever bit google do is stitching many shots together so you can move around.
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... and where does the retrun come for Google having a pic of all of our houses on the internet? Is there perhaps a subscription service available for burglars based on a complex algorythum of postcode / house size/ car in the drive?
.... sorry got carried away, wrong forum. I'll just pop across to the Daily Mail website.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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ctskifam, You mean like this.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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rjs, spot on!
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| Sideshow_Bob wrote: |
| Wayne, guy I knew back at Uni does this sort of thing manually with a DSLR, tripod and some software, |
Looks way to complex for me. Think I'll just wait till it comes out somewhere.
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You know it makes sense.
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Sure it would be possible, but it would be waaaay expensive for a pretty pointless novelty. However, google streetmap type thing of WHOLE mountains would be kool to plan offpsite routes with.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I have seen steetview maps of pisted runs in google before but am now racking my brains to remember which resort they were from...
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Poster: A snowHead
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kevindonkleywood, Whistler?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Dr John, not completely useless. Twice now I have used it to get the details of companies I remembered passing, but not much more. Quick look on streetview gets company name (or restaurant - someone described it as 'just past the pub on x road - I go n look, get name, make booking) then google for phone etc. (or just dial the phone number on the sign in streetview.)
Also used to go and look at places I am going to a meeting at - helps with spacial orientation etc on arrival, how likely is local parking etc.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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lampbus I use it for looking at places I am going to for meetings/parking as well.
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the serfaus website has a video of each run.. and being on the chair lifts!!
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lampbus, fair point, but that hardly justifies taking pictures of every street in every city, and recording the wifi details while they're about it. Beware google, they are evil.
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