SCI/TECH: Company To Offer Street-Level Images Of Cities

What do you get when you cross a global positioning system (GPS) with a digital camera? You get InsViewPlus, a digital property information system from Imageos, Inc. Imageos has plans to capture street level images in the largest 25 cities in the U.S., and offer an integrated system that can give police, firefighters, and insurance companies overhead and street level views of a street address, or longitude and latitude.



According to Imageos' Paul Jurasin, the database of images could be used by officials, responding to a emergency request, or insurance companies who want to make sure you have a fence around your pool. Or maybe your friend in another state wants to know if your pool is bigger than his, and if you landscaped your front yard properly"It gives them more information than they would get by driving up to a house, before they get there,'' Jurasin said.

Currently only Orlando, Florida has been mapped, and the company is waiting on further funding to implement it's goals. If this system were to take off there is sure to be a long line of customers waiting to use it's technology. Now if homeowners could only submit inside pictures of their houses, we could do away with realtors all together.

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That could be interesting, but heavens it could be a REAL drag on any computer system (all those images!) And the database would be staggeringly large.

I'm so glad I don't have to write any SQL queries on that monster!

I wonder what they would do about updating the system. New houses come up all the time. Houses and buildings are demolished, remodeled, moved, etc. Oh well, just another expense for taxpayers I'm sure.

I'm sure that Osama Bin Laden would find this very useful.