{"id":567,"date":"2006-03-27T20:03:40","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T20:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/567"},"modified":"2006-03-27T20:03:40","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T20:03:40","slug":"wish-list-google-earth-image-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/567","title":{"rendered":"Wish-list: Google-Earth image search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?t=k&#038;ll=-30.514727,121.3379&#038;spn=0.048063,0.047207\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/google-maps-ipod.jpg\" border=\"1\" height=\"229\" width=\"153\" alt=\"google-maps-ipod.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Philipp Lenssen over at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.outer-court.com\/archive\/2006-03-27.html#n21\">Google Blogoscoped<\/a> has posted a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?t=k&#038;ll=-30.514727,121.3379&#038;spn=0.048063,0.047207\">Google Maps image that looks like an iPod<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The story that this is an abandoned mine that was won by Steve Jobs in a poker game sounds too good to be true, but the image got me thinking: I wonder how good the results would be for a &#8220;find the closest match to this image in Google Earth&#8221; app \u2014 something that picks the best location and zoom level for a given query image from all the locations on Earth. The feature&#8217;s no doubt already in place in some GIS systems (for things like &#8220;here&#8217;s an unannotated fly-by image of a missile silo; find the likely origin&#8221;) but I&#8217;m really just thinking for arty things like &#8220;create a font of letters made up entirely of satellite and fly-by images.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?t=k&#038;ll=-30.514727,121.3379&#038;spn=0.048063,0.047207\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/google-maps-ipod.jpg\" border=\"1\" height=\"229\" width=\"153\" alt=\"google-maps-ipod.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Philipp Lenssen over at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.outer-court.com\/archive\/2006-03-27.html#n21\">Google Blogoscoped<\/a> has posted a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?t=k&#038;ll=-30.514727,121.3379&#038;spn=0.048063,0.047207\">Google Maps image that looks like an iPod<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The story that this is an abandoned mine that was won by Steve Jobs in a poker game sounds too good to be true, but the image got me thinking: I wonder how good the results would be for a &#8220;find the closest match to this image in Google Earth&#8221; app \u2014 something that picks the best location and zoom level for a given query image from all the locations on Earth. The feature&#8217;s no doubt already in place in some GIS systems (for things like &#8220;here&#8217;s an unannotated fly-by image of a missile silo; find the likely origin&#8221;) but I&#8217;m really just thinking for arty things like &#8220;create a font of letters made up entirely of satellite and fly-by images.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wish-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}