• Google Maps goes underwater
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[QUOTE][B]Google dipped below sea level on Tuesday, rolling out new interactive underwater maps that allow users to explore coral reefs around the world while staying on dry land. Meanwhile, Apple users complain about Apple Maps in iOS6.[/B] By Meena Hart Duerson / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS [IMG]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1168841.1348688041!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/google27n-4-web.jpg[/IMG] [B]Google debuted its underwater mapping technology on Tuesday.[/B] Google doesn’t just want to be your guide above ground anymore - the company is now taking its Street View technology underwater, to give you a peek at life below sea level. Google Maps rolled out its first-ever underwater panoramic images on Tuesday, announcing their “next step in our quest to provide people with the most copmrehensive, accurate and usable map of the world.” Users can now take a virtual tour of the ocean, exploring the coral reefs of six oceans, including Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, Apo Island in the Philippines, and Hawaii’s Hanauma Bay in the Pacific Ocean. The underwater panoramas can be navigated just like roads, as users can zoom in and out and toggle right, left, up and down using the Street View arrows to “look” around a location. [IMG]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1168844!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/google27n-1-web.jpg[/IMG] [B]You can get up close and personal with this turtle, thanks to Google's new underwater Street View.[/B] The stunning images were taken by The Caitlin Seaview Survey, a scientific study working in partnership with Google. They were shot continuously with the specially designed SVII underwater camera, and carefully combined to create the 360 degree view now available on Google Maps. “The biggest problem with the ocean is that it’s out of sight and out of mind for most of us,” Caitlin Project Director Richard Vevers told tech blog Boing Boing. “99% of people have never gone for a diver and never will.” Vevers said he hopes the mappign project will aid in efforts to preserve ocean life, by increasing the connection humans have with what lies underwater. [IMG]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1168842!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/google27n-3-web.jpg[/IMG] [B]Wildlife researchers hope this will make people feel more connected to the ocean.[/B] “One of the biggest issues around conservation is engaging people with the ocean, and this is a powerful way to accomplish that,” he said. “It is a scientific project to create a baseline for observing how the oceans are changing, but it also creates awareness of why that matters.” In a video posted to Google’s blog, divers can be seen roaming the oceans to capture the incredible footage of the environment down below, scoping out the flora and fauna so that people on dry land can voyeuristically channel Jacques Cousteau. “We want to make these special underwater locations as accessible to people as the roads and landmarks they explore in Google Maps every day,” Jennifer Austin Foulkes, the Manager of Google’s Oceans Program, said in a press release. The project will run until Decemeber and will visit 20 coral reefs, including ones that have “never previously been seen or studied before.” It will continue in different locations in 2013. [IMG]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1168843!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/google27n-2-web.jpg[/IMG] [B]The project will visit 20 reefs.[/B] Google also took the chance to show off its technology by hosting an underwater Google+ Hangout from the Great Barrier Reef to debut its new tool. Meanwhile, Apple - which dumped Google Maps on its latest operating system in favor of its own map technology - is feeling the heat. Users have slammed iOS6 for switching to Apple Maps, which boasts a sleek design but is plagued by glitches and lacks information on public transportation and many locations previously available to users of Google Maps. [video=youtube;7syWPIZt9B4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7syWPIZt9B4[/video][/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/google-maps-underwater-street-view-technology-lets-users-tour-oceans-article-1.1168845#commentpostform"]Source[/URL]
that title scared me for a second i thought google maps lost control of their finances and was going away plz to not scare again <3 [editline]26th September 2012[/editline] but this is fucking cool
I've been wanting to visit the Great Barrier Reef ever since I was a kid. You lucky Australians and your reefs and colorful fish :( In Norway we have boring looking fish like this: [thumb]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4DxWHwRBHqw/TghoLGu6dfI/AAAAAAAABy0/2ZfhYen44Qo/s1600/cod.jpg[/thumb] And then Australia: [thumb]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T4r23wfEitc/TV9-w8rvXXI/AAAAAAAAAzs/y-xYYNgYI0o/s1600/34.jpg[/thumb]
I want to explore the Titanic
I had/have an idea like this. Except it was more like google earth for the oceans. Sort of like how google earth already has the topography showing, except in much more detail to the point you could go and explore 3d models of whatever was down there. Reefs, geothermal vents, shipwrecks, etc.
[QUOTE=OvB;37810853]I had/have an idea like this. Except it was more like google earth for the oceans. Sort of like how google earth already has the topography showing, except in much more detail to the point you could go and explore 3d models of whatever was down there. Reefs, geothermal vents, shipwrecks, etc.[/QUOTE] They already have mapped the heighth of the ocean floors though, it's a feature of Google Earth.
Useful for the people that use iOS Maps.
Awesome. Just awesome.
How I love Google.
[QUOTE=Killuah;37810881]They already have mapped the heighth of the ocean floors though, it's a feature of Google Earth.[/QUOTE] [quote]Sort of like how google earth already has the topography showing[/quote] I know. My idea is to show the ocean floor map in greater detail so you can actually "explore" it in a 3d realm rather than just peek at a bumpy map that's hard to navigate and hard to really grasp the grandeur of. Plus it would be full of 3d models of features we know exist like deep sea coral reef, geothermal vents, shipwrecks, and other objects and places in the same way google earth show's cities. Given proper funding and exploration of its full potential it could be linked to actual marine biology institutions to display information about animal tracking, environmental overlays, and much more. Basically the "oceans" overlay on google earth, except in much more detail. Basically a google earth for the oceans, and only the oceans.
Now I can take the scuba diving trip I've always wanted! I just won't have to make that difficult decision of leaving my room that kept me from scuba diving all these years!
This seems like a not so subtle "fuck you" to Apple Maps.
[QUOTE=OvB;37810946]I know. My idea is to show the ocean floor map in greater detail so you can actually "explore" it in a 3d realm rather than just peek at a bumpy map that's hard to navigate and hard to really grasp the grandeur of. Plus it would be full of 3d models of features we know exist like deep sea coral reef, geothermal vents, shipwrecks, and other objects and places in the same way google earth show's cities. Given proper funding and exploration of its full potential it could be linked to actual marine biology institutions to display information about animal tracking, environmental overlays, and much more. Basically the "oceans" overlay on google earth, except in much more detail. Basically a google earth for the oceans, and only the oceans.[/QUOTE] Google Oceans
well holy shit
i like that turtle
That thing where it tells you to swim across the pacific when you ask for a route description from the US to Japan... it's not a joke.
[QUOTE=SSBMX;37811047]Google Oceans[/QUOTE] Yeah I have the google earth plugin. It's still not detailed enough for what I have in mind.
[QUOTE=Carne;37810832]I've been wanting to visit the Great Barrier Reef ever since I was a kid. You lucky Australians and your reefs and colorful fish :( In Norway we have boring looking fish like this: [thumb]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4DxWHwRBHqw/TghoLGu6dfI/AAAAAAAABy0/2ZfhYen44Qo/s1600/cod.jpg[/thumb] And then Australia: [thumb]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T4r23wfEitc/TV9-w8rvXXI/AAAAAAAAAzs/y-xYYNgYI0o/s1600/34.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE] On the bright side, none of those grey and dull animals try to kill you. I wouldn't say that for half of the beautiful shit living in Australia.
[QUOTE=axelord157;37811019]This seems like a not so subtle "fuck you" to Apple Maps.[/QUOTE] Or it's a really cool feature for the purpose of being a really cool feature?
iOS version of underwater maps: [thumb]http://twolivesleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/OceanSequence.png[/thumb]
I love Google I saw a thing awhile back on Daily Planet about the portable version of their Streeview tech. For hikers to take with them. It looked pretty sweet
iOS maps already goes underwater Unintentionally, mind you, but still :v:
OPs avatar = apples face
[QUOTE=Carne;37810832]I've been wanting to visit the Great Barrier Reef ever since I was a kid. You lucky Australians and your reefs and colorful fish :( In Norway we have boring looking fish like this: [thumb]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4DxWHwRBHqw/TghoLGu6dfI/AAAAAAAABy0/2ZfhYen44Qo/s1600/cod.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE] They all look so depressed...
[QUOTE=Derp Y. Mail;37812862]They all look so depressed...[/QUOTE] Probably because they're out of water. I mean, wouldn't you be depressed if you was under water for a long time?
a streetview car drove into the ocean this is no laughing matter
Good, now they can re-map the UK with the recent flooding.
[QUOTE=meppers;37812937]a streetview car drove into the ocean this is no laughing matter[/QUOTE] [thumb]http://damp-dry.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/scuba-car-underwater-submarine-car.jpg[/thumb]
Finally, now I can keep going after it tells me to drive off a bridge and into a river!
[QUOTE=Clio;37811098]i like that turtle[/QUOTE] It's turtles all the way down...
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