Google have just updated their Street View to include Flickr Photos …
… you can see this in action here.
Flickr joins Panaramio and Picasa as a source of photos. Flickr has always had plenty of good quality geotagged photos, so this looks like a handy addition to the whole Street View thing. No word on how many Flickr photos they’ve used, or if it’s just for certain locations, but I’m sure there’ll be some official word at some point.
But wait, there’s more:
Flickr photos have also been crunched into google’s image brain …
… not only allowing for seamless picture-zooming between Flickr, Picasa & Panaramio photos, but it also means Google has a bit more understand of where a photo is and it’s context to the surrounding area than Flickr itself has. I guess this means they’ll make it onto the iPad version of GoogleMaps too.
Which is kinda neat.
Not quite sure how the copyright works out though. Traditionally image search results have shown thumbnails, which are fine as search results. Here fullsized images are being shown, and considering they must have been downloaded to be processed for the image-zoomy thing, they’re probably being served from Googles servers.
Haven’t sniffed the traffic while Flash loads them, so not sure yet.
Photos shown: seattle space needle #3 by lomokev & IMG_5811: Space Needle by ac4lt
(via Kellan)
Filed under: flickr, geoblogging, google, maps, photos
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Google is serving copyrighted photos (“All rights reserved”) in their ad-sponsored (albeit useful and fun) service.
http://www.petapixel.com/2010/02/10/should-google-serve-copyrighted-flickr-photos-on-street-view
Would any other ad-agency or newspaper or online service get away with scraping images off Flickr and incorporate them into their own service?
The fact that this isn’t considered by most tech-coverage of this new Google/Flickr partnership is a punch to the face for online copyright.
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