Google Earth technology provides for a visual display of information about a specific location. Building on this platform, the Pennsylvania Tourism Office will incorporate a new technology developed through the Global Connections Project, a partnership that includes CMU, Google and NASA’s Ames Research Center.
Known as Gigapan — short for Gigapixel Panoramas — the technology combines thousands of digital images to create a panoramic image in excess of one billion pixels. When combined with time-lapse, users can explore the space through time as well.
Online visitors will also be able to access specific tourism data helping travelers better visualize a destination of interest.
There’s a link on this page to the Webcast of the press conference announcing it. At 12 minutes in, you’ll see the demonstration.
Eventually, this mash-up of technologies will find applications in areas beyond tourism, so I’m glad to see the public sector involved with the development.
I can’t leave this topic without saying, however, that I find it the height of arrogance that these Yankees in Pennsylvania think they have better Civil War sites than we do in Virginia.
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