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Street View service business opportunities

Google Inc. last week launched Google Maps Street View of Hong Kong version, which is following in Japan, Taiwan and Singapore, the fourth launch of the street view service in Asia, at the same time, iPhone and Android versions simultaneously launched the service with the global satellite positioning, since then I believe it would be difficult to get lost in Hong Kong now.

Google Street View service was first launched in May 2007. Start from the beginning, only 5 cities in the United States to provide this service has been developed to cover most of North America and Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and some Asian cities.

Google is very big ambition of this scheme, all the way since the ultimate goal of Google is to the world’s information stored on their server, this great project, certainly not a place, they use Google search technology, most of the Internet directory information and store well made, then in turn a collection of electronic library re free to share, but to the number of the most useful, of course, Google Maps, together with street view, imagine, the server has been saved massive data, how exactly Google images of Hong Kong’s streets are taken and stored?

So that is large with a light film to high-quality photographic equipment and technology, and equipment used in the shooting, the main part to nine different directions towards the composition of the camera can cover the 360 ° wide, equipped with a global satellite positioning systems and laser distance measuring instrument, add the street filming the car, then driving all Hong Kong street at least once, the version can be made now, so take to complete the streetscape around the world, only Google have this types of financial resources and determination.

But the world has no free lunch, Google can take this technology to increase its advertising sales, during the users to using this services, the customer’s information will be appear into the street image itself, the user can not help see the images from the streets to the ad’s name and related information.

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