Thumbs up and thumbs down instead of rating 1-5
Now you can vote for the images by thumbs up or thumbs down. We used to have a rating system from 1 to 5 stars. I hope that it will be easier to vote on images this way, so we’ll get more votes.
You vote by clicking one of the thumbs under the image. If you give a thumbs up to an image, it gets +2 and if you give a thumbs down, it gets -1. The total rating can be seen under the image.
We’re working on migrating the ratings for the old images to this new system. The ratings for the brand new images should be working as intended already.
Earthmine – new technology similar to StreetView
The company Earthmine have developed a fascinating product similar to Streetview. It will however be used for other purposes and most likely will not be available for free to the public.
Architects, insurance companies and real estate companies for instance will like the built in feature to measure the volume of buildings. Earthmines product is not yet available but it was recently shown at the Demofall Conference in San Diego. The image data is gathered in a similar way as Mapjack and Google Streetview using GPS locators and lots of cameras mounted on top of a car.
You can see a demo of the product here:
