[Geowanking] A9 street-view photo data?

[Kevin Elliott]

Mike Liebhold wrote:
> One of Amazon's lead engineers on the photomap project showed up at 
> our little Geowanker's gathering last night in San Francisco. It turns 
> out that the project was never fully supported, and that Amazon has 
> lost interest in a very complex and expensive battle with Google, 
> Microsoft, and Yahoo, to compete with mulitmedia map services.
>
> Meanwhile the others are forging ahead with much more elaborate plans 
> to offer fully 3D navigable maps. Think of Sketch-Up buildings on 
> Google Earth with full textured, photorealisitc surfaces. It has been 
> rumored, for some time that Microsoft Virtual Earth has been gathering 
> Lidar 3D imagery for exactly this application, And yesterday, at the 
> deCarta ( Telcontar) developers conference, Teleatlas showed some 
> spectacular 3D photorealistic maps with they are building.
>
> -Mike

Mike,

Now what I want to know, most importantly, is how in the world do you 
have time to go to so many conferences, meetings, and events, yet still 
make a living? Share the secret ;)

Kevin