Thursday 6 December 2012

Nokia Maps digitises streets to battle Google's threat


Seems like Nokia is going to revolutionalise maps by using point cloud data. Nokia is combining data gathered by lasers and cameras to make interactive 3D images of cities. Information taken by panoramic cameras is combined with Lidar data to create street-level coloured graphics. Lidar,LIght Detection And Ranging, is a rotating sensor which uses 64 lasers to capture 1.3 million points of digital information every second of the vehicle's, attached with the sensor, journey.

PS
Thank you Kate for sending me that.

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