Video: Google Earth animated with real time human and vehicular traffic
By Vlad Savov 
posted Sep 30th 2009 8:29AM
posted Sep 30th 2009 8:29AM
[Via Engadget Polish]
posted Sep 30th 2009 8:29AM
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Now I can spy on people from the comfort of my computer.
This is fantastic. Now when I play the Google Earth Flight Simulator I can buzz honda civics with my F16 and blow Tata Nano's and Minis off the roads with GBU -15's !!!
Cool story, bro.
Since when COULDN'T we do that? :P
Now I can check to see if you have a new pool or not.
A lot of people in Georgia have new pools...
Wow. Can't wait until it shows representations of real-time traffic.
This is awesome, what will Google think of next?! Down the road they should implement this in vehicles and hopefully for free perhaps.
read the title @.@ it does , you can read right?
Just what the police state needs. Can't wait til they CCTV where they can track your car by license plate.
Yeah I don't want internet to spy on me, and who would supply live data on pedestrian movement widely and be within privacy laws and privacy expectations.
Let's keep this in movies in secret lairs of NSA and such where people without decency and respect for their fellow humans exploit it to fight imaginary dangers, in movies, not in reality.
The state of the weather is another matter though, that might be nice to add, or just a graphical representation of traffic density which will be supplied to google as density information not as live video feeds (I know there are live traffic cams already, but they are sporadic and of poor quality as available for the public, and google and such is 'the public' too.)
Unlike classical Big Brother scenarios, though, the general public has access to this information now, too. This is a good thing, considering that officials have had access for years now.
I don't know, for some things more isn't merrier, would be better to fix all the spooks and such having too much info, but alas even obama whitewashes AT&T's part in the treason to the constitution, so who knows what else is going on.
And that's just the US, many places are worse, including 'civilized western' nations.
awesome we can now watch the superbowl on google earth :D
Now we already know that Fox Sports is definitely not going to support this project!!!
we can watch public porn on google earth!
ha! this is really excellent!
I cannot left aside how engadget likes Google. The video says that this is done with Google earth and Microsoft virtual earth but Microsoft is not mentioned in the article...
I was going to comment on the same point.
It's not so much a Google bias in work as it is their Apple bias, which prevents them from mentioning anything positive about Microsoft.
You guys are some whiny bitches.
MS earth requires 'silverlight', perhaps engadget is like me and holding out as long as possible against installing that nonsense duplication of effort that's just an attempt from MS to get what you do with JAVA more propriety.
Also this is a theoretical thing and the guys are just patenting it to make big bucks and it would be applicable to ANY application, even though I bet further research will show their ideas are already in 50 MS/apple/google/yahoo/etc. patents and GNU projects since it bloody obvious and not done only because it would take too much bandwidth and effort and money to sync it all up and feed it in.
Shouldn't be long before someone googles "swollenmonkey's living room" and there you'll see me watching monkey porn in real time.
Hey can you rewind a bit?
How many polacks does it take to write a Engadget article?
Dunno - how many minutes did it take for you to come up with that idiotic statement?
I expect to see this on HD-happy crime drams like CSI-NY and NCIS-LA in a matter of weeks. Who knew crime solving was a matter of pinching and dragging on big-ass tables hung on the walls?
Wait a second.. Thats my wife's car. She told me she was going to work!
LOL
There goes my coffee again.
Wow, imagine this on a GPS system in your car where you could see real time traffic flows.
If you lived in Europe you can already get a real-time traffic GPS system courtesy of TomTom’s HD live service. It has a sim card in the back and uses the mobile phone data from other people’s phones to determine the position of cars on the road live and reroute if necessary. You can see real-time traffic maps on their website.
This will be GREAT for predicting traffic in the mornings before I leave for work. Google amazes me more and more.
This has nothing to do with Google other than one of their products were used. A few students from Georgia Tech developed a method of blending video feeds together and putting the data onto a map to make the information more useful.
It is a nice feature but useless. We are expected other features such more recent and high definition photos. Truly, in some places the photos are really old (a couple of years in some cases) and lacks on high def (zoom).
it's free...sometimes you can't have you cake and eat a shoe
This wouldnt be useless if it could somehow be implemented into a cars built in GPS navigation system. Thats way they can get real time traffic updates and also view exactly how far it is backed up, where it is dense, and so forth.
Man as scary as this will be, still pretty cool.
Just now, no freedom in this world!
but is anyone thinking.. Playboy mansion? lol
Big brother is watching you.
Yeah, we might as well embrace our new Google Overlords.
What next? Google will take control over the world? O_o
I have already accepted this fact and so should everyone else. the thing is that google has not done anything inherently wrong to humanity. at least not yet. I would much rather have google rule the world than probably any current world leader
pretty soon they will have it to where they can watch us taking a dump LOL then we will be in serious trouble
Simple solution. Don't put a public webcam in your bathroom.
That's nice and all, but here in Canada we'd be happy just to get Street view and regular traffic data. Please?
Very cool stuff. Just the idea of being able to watch a football game at home as if you were sitting in the stands is a very very cool idea!
Did he just say Football "MATCH?" You have to be kidding me.
Wow most people don't even know about Street View and when they do find out, they get scared that it invades their privacy. Wait till they see this!
So, the traffic was just a cover for the real reason for this: spying on football teams during practice!
Way cooler than spygate...
And if you have an Android Phone you can have a flag above your head so everyone can follow you around - love it - I think
paparazzi work has been just rendered useless