![]() That’s of course where our minds go in terms of app outcomes, and this could be a developer tool that has a peanut butter and chocolate moment with location and places datasets from companies like Foursquare. The latter is where the rubber meets the road for potential monetization, such as overlaying a place database to infuse business details, store reviews, etc. Those include municipal layers (think: streets, parks) as well as structural layers (buildings). Spatial maps offered in the platform also include several layers of data. For those technically inclined, it’s using the Cesium 3D format. As an additional UX perk, buildings are rendered in their real-world exterior color. That includes building area and elevation. Graphically speaking, Here claims that each structure in a given city is volumetrically and geospatially accurate to a sub-meter level. always makes the list of launch cities for such platforms, given that its topographical orientation creates more complexity in 3D mapping - a variable Z-axis. As a side note, it’s a bit of a surprise that S.F. Specifically, the platform offers high-definition 3D models of 75 major cities including London, Paris and San Francisco. This could include local search and discovery apps. As such, it should provide raw materials for the latter to reach the market soon. But as noted, this is a developer platform rather than a fully baked consumer-ready product. One of those endpoints, evident in the latest development, is consumer-facing 3D mapping. It develops advanced 3D mapping technology for self-driving cars among other endpoints. For those unfamiliar, Here was owned by Nokia before being spun out as its own digital mapping play. But that’s a non-starter for anyone outside of the few million people that own VR hardware (much less the compatible HTC and Oculus hardware).ģD mapping’s evolutionary path was accelerated last week with a new developer tool from Here Technologies. And with Google Earth VR, you can fly around major cities in high fidelity and strikingly immersive ways. In fairness, Google Earth has since launched 3D functionality. ![]() Since then, Moore’s Law has pushed the concept closer to reality for most folks, but immersive 3D mapping is still an unfulfilled promise. For most people, the experience stalled out in buffering and crashed browsers. The issue was that you needed ungodly amounts of local memory and processing for it to actually work. It let you essentially fly around a city, sort of like Google Earth but in three dimensions. It’s core function - positioned for sex appeal - was 3D renderings of U.S. With its efforts to expand the service to the web, Nokia is proving that it offers a holistic service," said Daryl Chiam, Principal Analyst, Canalys.In 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsofts Virtual Earth 3D, a product some of you may remember. "With Ovi Maps on mobile, Nokia has shown its ability to transform a useful feature into a mass market experience that lays the foundation for innovation in location-based services beyond traditional routing benefits. "Ovi Maps' photorealistic 3D models of metropolitan areas are a significant step towards our vision of bridging the real and virtual world, with location-based services being the glue," said Michael Halbherr, senior vice president, Nokia. Ovi Maps on the web covers 180 countries, 93 of them navigable, in 29 languages. With the goal of bridging the real and virtual worlds on both mobile and web, Nokia's Ovi Maps for mobile covers 180 countries, nearly 100 of them navigable in 53 languages. The road-level imagery is now available for five cities, Copenhagen, Helsinki, London, Oslo and San Francisco. With the beta service featuring 20 metropolitan areas, the number of photorealistic 3D models will increase over time. Road-level imagery completes the experience with a detailed 360-degree panoramic view of streets. Starting with a bird's-eye view, people can scale up and down and move around objects such as buildings and trees from their desktop, experiencing a virtual but super realistic perspective of new places. ![]() Introduced at the Where 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, California, Nokia's 3D offering is the most realistic available and goes beyond rendering limited areas and buildings by making entire cities, including suburbs, available for exploration. This immersive and free feature adds a new dimension to the Ovi Maps experience and enables people to explore places in a completely different way. Major step in Nokia's plans to bridge real and virtual worldsĮspoo, Finland - Nokia today announced photorealistic 3D models of metropolitan areas for the web version of Ovi Maps. Unparalleled degree of 3D realism and scale helps people get a feel for places before they get there Nokia launches photorealistic 3D models of metropolitan areas for Ovi Maps ![]()
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