{"id":374930,"date":"2010-03-01T00:15:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T05:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/google_challenges_bings_photosynth_adds_user_photo.php"},"modified":"2010-03-01T00:15:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T05:15:24","slug":"google-challenges-bings-photosynth-adds-user-photos-to-street-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/374930","title":{"rendered":"Google Challenges Bing’s Photosynth; Adds User Photos to Street View"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"googleGoogle Street View has made a few headlines at RWW lately – once for getting itself into hot water in Europe<\/a> and once, notably, for bringing Street View’s photo-tour features into retail outlets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, we’ve learned that Street View will also begin to feature user-submitted photographs. According to a recent Google Lat Long blog post<\/a>, “We began integrating user photos into Street View last year. User photos allow you to view locations from entirely new perspectives, whether through the eyes of a talented photographer with a knack for capturing architectural detail, or simply taken from locations we couldn’t get to… We’re making it easier to navigate through these images in a way that should feel similar to how you’re used to exploring within Street View.” <\/p>\n

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Users can submit pictures from Picasa, Panoramio and Flickr that show different views, times of day or pedestrian-only areas. Here’s an example of what the interface looks like; the square in the top right corner indicates there are user-submitted images for that area.<\/p>\n

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And here is the photo navigation interface. Users can also navigate through photos using new click-and-drag controls to see images from nearby areas, or different angles or crops of the same area.<\/p>\n

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Some have speculated that Google has chosen to highlight and integrate this feature because of competition with Bing. The Next Web recently called<\/a> Microsoft’s Photosynth, a similar product launched in 2008<\/a> and integrated into Bing Maps, “the killer app of the Bing suite” that differentiates Bing from Google in a positive way. <\/p>\n

“The feature,” wrote Jacob Friedman , “displays collections of photos stitched together into a panorama[…] The results, to put it bluntly, can be spectacular.”<\/p>\n

While Google’s offering may not have the 3D-esque quality of Photosynth, allowing for more creative images and photos from a larger geographical area to be shared in Street View is a smart move for the company. Let us know what you think in the comments.<\/p>\n

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