Google Creates Tour de France Video Maps 78
An anonymous reader writes "In honor of the Tour de France's start today, Google has used its awesome Street View technology to compile amazing Tour de France route views. A great description of the technology that went into creating this can be found in this LinuxDevices article. At least, I'm assuming these are the cameras — Google acknowledged using Elphel cameras for book scanning and 'capturing street imagery in Google Maps.' And from the article, the cameras have come a long way from the days when crazy cat ladies and other privacy freaks scuppered Street View in San Francisco a couple of years back."
Re:Yeah, those crazy privacy freaks! (Score:3, Funny)
Anyone who describes cars with video camera's on top of them as 'awesome technology' can hardly be expected to understand privacy issues, can they...
Totally Illegitimate (Score:1, Funny)
I hear some of the street view drivers were known drinkers of coffee during their runs. This alone invalidates all the results of their efforts until some proper piss tests can be arranged.
Wha? (Score:3, Funny)
I guarantee that came from a 'word of the day.'
Let them do drugs! (Score:3, Funny)
Then we can bet on who has the best doctor !