Google Satellite View Looks Terrible

[swillfly]

I made the mistake of zooming all the way in to see my neighborhood. It looks like a Henri Matisse watercolor with blurry green "trees" and parked transformers cars from Salvador Dali's car crusher. Wtf is this?[i.postimg.cc]

[Soda ポップ！]

Why you looking at your neighbors? Trying to start a heist?

[swillfly]

Originally posted by 𝟼𝟺𝟻:𝐚𝐦 ☀:

Why you looking at your neighbors? Trying to start a heist?

I was curious to see if their sat image was able to capture the notorious VIP who always takes the closest parking spot. Gave me a headache just looking at the runny crappy image and couldn't see squat.

[HOBO BOB]

Why is your neighborhood in PS2 graphics

[swillfly]

I've seen toddler drawings and play-doh turds that could do a better representation than Google's current zoomed-in sat view. Undoubtedly changed from when they first released sat view which was quite detailed.

[swillfly]

Originally posted by LegendPro_1466:

Originally posted by swillfly:

I've seen toddler drawings and play-doh turds that could do a better representation than Google's current zoomed-in sat view. Undoubtedly changed from when they first released sat view which was quite detailed.

Yeah so?

If you wanna look at your neighborhood better than a satellite, use please a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ drone or something flying that takes photo from above.

• expensive
  
• easily damaged/fubar
  
• probably be reported

Probably best recon is my own recon. I already have plenty of happy snaps from cell saved. I was just curious how Google Maps was.. and it sucks worse now.

[Xautos]

google maps are out of date and a mishmash of half accurate data at the time those google cars made it around each country. frankly i expected nothing less from google honestly.

[Washell]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRcxcmhA3yg

You're welcome.

Also, they tend to use aerial photography for the most zoomed in levels when available. When it's not, blurry commercial satellite image it is.

[swillfly]

Originally posted by Washell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRcxcmhA3yg

You're welcome.

Also, they tend to use aerial photography for the most zoomed in levels when available. When it's not, blurry commercial satellite image it is.

Thank-you. However that video is outdated now and that function has been removed by Google.

>> The option to turn off 3d images is now called "Globe". When you click Globe it uses old low-res sat images instead of the impressionistic pos-view.

[Trundle]

Yeah it full of pixel

[SMIFFY]

Originally posted by Xautos:

google maps are out of date and a mishmash of half accurate data at the time those google cars made it around each country. frankly i expected nothing less from google honestly.

How up to date do you expect Street View to be? Talk about entitled.

[Xautos]

Originally posted by SMIFFY:

Originally posted by Xautos:

google maps are out of date and a mishmash of half accurate data at the time those google cars made it around each country. frankly i expected nothing less from google honestly.

How up to date do you expect Street View to be? Talk about entitled.

Alright then, lets work with what you say including the disrespectful tone. Let's say you wanted to travel to a town 50 miles from here and used google maps to do it, so you head out in that direction but you then realise that google maps isn't up to date and there is a new housing block in existence, so you look around and find no way to reach this area after an hour by car. so you park the car up and start searching around on foot.

in reality there is a road around the other side of the town, that lets you into this new area and will take 10 minutes to reach by car and no known way to get there by foot because the houses are built in such a way that doesn't allow easy footpaths.

after 2 hours you give up and go home. a few weeks later and google finally updates it's map and adds this new housing block.

so tell me something, is it wrong to expect google to updates its maps every so often to keep them reasonably up to date so people know where they are going?

[Azza ☠]

Firstly understand that Google Earth, is just that, the entire Earth.

It will depend on your Internet connection to load in all the details, but also certain areas of the map might not be as detailed as others. Also, each map piece overlaps the others and has multiple levels of LOD (Level Of Detail). Based on variable distance and bandwidth an objects complexity, or textures resolution will gradually decrease or increase in order to optimize performance vs quality.

Add in VR (Virtual Reality) and you have certain locations, mostly tourist attractions and main popular places, you can even visit. Walking or flying around in 3D. You however need a good Internet connection to stream that roam, without noticing map load.

Overall Google Earth is seriously detailed for what it is.

ps: They will blur out people's faces and car license plates, etc... On purpose for privacy.

There's still some amusing things captured around for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOmqKvXbnKo

This is the VR version of Google Earth (certain locations are seriously detailed):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-XidwKsKAE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMpXQ_XjPWY

[Xautos]

Originally posted by Azza ☠:

Firstly understand that Google Earth, is just that, the entire Earth.

It will depend on your Internet connection to load in all the details, but also certain areas of the map might not be as detailed as others. Also, each map piece overlaps the others and has multiple levels of LOD (Level Of Detail). Based on variable distance and bandwidth an objects complexity, or textures resolution will gradually decrease or increase in order to optimize performance vs quality.

Add in VR (Virtual Reality) and you have certain locations, mostly tourist attractions and main popular places, you can even visit. Walking or flying around in 3D. You however need a good Internet connection to stream that roam, without noticing map load.

Overall Google Earth is seriously detailed for what it is.

ps: They will blur out people's faces and car license plates, etc... On purpose for privacy.

There's still some amusing things captured around for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOmqKvXbnKo

This is the VR version of Google Earth (certain locations are seriously detailed):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-XidwKsKAE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMpXQ_XjPWY

If Google can do that? they can update their maps accordingly on a regular basis.

[swillfly]

Google 3d uses these gfx:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwabotWol34

[Azza ☠]

Originally posted by Xautos:

Originally posted by Azza ☠:

Firstly understand that Google Earth, is just that, the entire Earth.

It will depend on your Internet connection to load in all the details, but also certain areas of the map might not be as detailed as others. Also, each map piece overlaps the others and has multiple levels of LOD (Level Of Detail). Based on variable distance and bandwidth an objects complexity, or textures resolution will gradually decrease or increase in order to optimize performance vs quality.

Add in VR (Virtual Reality) and you have certain locations, mostly tourist attractions and main popular places, you can even visit. Walking or flying around in 3D. You however need a good Internet connection to stream that roam, without noticing map load.

Overall Google Earth is seriously detailed for what it is.

ps: They will blur out people's faces and car license plates, etc... On purpose for privacy.

There's still some amusing things captured around for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOmqKvXbnKo

This is the VR version of Google Earth (certain locations are seriously detailed):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-XidwKsKAE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMpXQ_XjPWY

If Google can do that? they can update their maps accordingly on a regular basis.

It's not instant.

Sure they use satellite images, but then they have to actually drive every single street too at a smooth speed in vehicles. This is why the quality changes from place to place, as they update is slower in various places. The vehicle camera quality has been greatly increased over the years, but then they need to redo driving the entire world again and again. That takes time, so they stick to the major spots and slowly update the rest spreading out (starting off at 4.8 megapixel via 6 camera lens, now it's 75 megapixel via 15 camera lens, but still not fully covered via that yet).

Special locations even get up to a 140 megapixel via 7 camera lens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FZH652qYkA