As we mentioned in our post ‘Google Street View – A Closer Look‘ the technology is subject to the cameras going out of alignment. This, combined with image flare, can create errors in the scene and a Flickr user by the name of Stallio has been grabbing screen shots to illustrate the point. See the Flickr slide show below for the images so far:
Take a look at the Google Street View Glitch set on Flickr for more info.
Morphing software is primarily used to move between a series of peoples faces. All and well and good but it may also work in terms of the city. Below is out first test – morphing the London Tube to the Seoul Subway:
We should have more of these and if deemed worthy a ‘how to’ in the coming weeks..
Dawid Gorny of “www.wirtualnygostyn.pl has uploaded over 30 images to our digital urban flickr group. Taken in and around the town of Gostyn in Poland Dawid captures his images using using Canon 400D camera with 18-55mm kit lens – for High Dynamic Range images this requires over 90 photographs.
Dawid’s site is well worth a look due to both the high quality of the images and the sense of place gained by viewing the images and the map.
Using the very easy to use script from Pictobrowser you can embed the Digital Urban Flickr group – or any Flickr set – in a webpage or blog:
Its easy to join the group, simply login or set up a Flickr account and click here to join the Digital Urban Group. To embed a Flickr group in a webpage or blog simply go to Pictobrowser and follow the simple instructions.