Daum's Road View

[hyunwoo]

http://local.daum.net/map/index.jsp?cx=494917&cy=1128521&level=6&panoid=107438&pan=348.6&tilt=-8.6&map_attribute=ROADVIEW&map_type=TYPE_SKYVIEW&map_hybrid=true

http://daum.net made something like the Google Street View, and it's called Road View (로드뷰) and it's focused on Korea. And I personally think it's much better than the Street View by Google because the pictures are clearer and also because Google doesn't provide the Street View service for Korea

Check it out

http://local.daum.net/map/index.jsp?cx=494917&cy=1128521&level=6&panoid=107438&pan=348.6&tilt=-8.6&map_attribute=ROADVIEW&map_type=TYPE_SKYVIEW&map_hybrid=true

[javiskefka]

Wow, those are much higher resolution photos than Google street view. I wonder if they blurred out faces and license plates with an algorithm, or they hired people to do it by hand.

[hyunwoo]

Not sure But my guess is by using people.... but again, I don't know. Hehe.

[austinfd]

WOW...

I actually remember seeing cars drive around town with cameras attached to the roofs. I guess they were gathering data for this project!

[cheri]

Wow, I love this, haha!
I found my old apt building!
The quality's amazing.
Thank you for sharing

[javiskefka]

Sounds like they do the blurring manually:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2009/02/133_38407.html

Daum has a team of engineers who blur faces and license plates for its Internet map services. The process is a pure manual effort, as the company has yet to develop a facial-recognition algorithm that could scan faces to blur.

[hyunwoo]

Blurring everything manually must be a lot of work!!!!

[javiskefka]

Blurring everything manually must be a lot of work!!!!

Yes, I bet. The Google street view service originally had no blurring at all. It was added after the service had been around for a while, and since the database was so hopelessly large at that point, the blurring was all done automatically. As a result anything that resembles a face (round, light-colored area with some dark spots on it) is blurred out. This includes some text on signs, parts of buildings, and even hubcaps .