One of my big questions whenever these photographic services come out, is how often the imagery gets updated. What we're seeing on Street View are image stills from that video, which is how you're able to get a new shot from nearly every point on a recorded route. This camera is mounted on top of a moving vehicle that both records video and geodata simultaneously. Both use an 11-lens camera called Dodeca 2360 that captures an immensely large surface area of images at a very high resolution. In addition to these interactive 3D pictures, they use the same technology for videos. The data for four of the five Street View-enabled cities comes from a company called Immersive Media. Here at CNET, we're also centrally located in one of the few cities ( San Francisco) to have nearly all of its main thoroughfares Street View-enabled. It's one of those Web services that just works. I spent a good part of yesterday tooling around with the new Google Maps Street View feature.
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