Wired: "San Franciscans may have noticed an odd, camera-laden car driving through city streets taking photos of everything, but this time, it wasn’t Google. The car belongs instead to earthmine, whose cameras capture more data than Google’s do, using a higher-resolution, stereo photography technique that assigns specific points in space to every captured surface."
Interesting... I'm glad somebody other than Google is doing this. As for their fantastic boasts about every pixel being a 3D point in space though... I'm not really seeing it. It looks pretty much just like Google streetview (maybe a little higher resolution) and they've added a bunch of out-of-place looking squares that line up with building walls, where you can draw graffiti. From the description it sounded like a 3D city you could run around in and tag whatever you want, but it's more like streetview with some little mini paintable squares thrown in.
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