City8.com in China have a unique take on the use of panoramas to provide information about the city. Systems such as Google’s Street View provide a blanket coverage of the road system but in reality are little more than ‘eye candy’. City 8 on the other hand allows users to tag information inside the panorama – creating a simple yet effective way to geolocate comments and info on the urban environment.
The YouTube movie below provides an insight:
Take a look at http://www.city8.com for more info…
That’s such a great feature! I’m truly impressed… and this only reinforce me in believing 360° imagery is the absolute future for everything: photo, video, maps… This is only the beginning 😉
I did a search and found something about city8.com. It’s in English.
http://www.easypano.com/about-city8.html
According to city8.com, an English Version of Beijing, the Olympic Host City, will be released in July. If you gonna go for the Olympic, it’s good for you to check it out before you leave!