Frog Up or Down

For many reason, I have not used Google much of late, no reason other than they threatened me with extinction if I did not change a name I have been using since the very beginning of Google. It scared me a little, so I went back to Mac and the Apple Sphere. Its a little different, but when you use a Mac and live in Google, but thats mostly behind me, as mail, calendar and a few other apps are now mostly Apple. But try as I might, Google does not go away, so the blog I transferred here, is again being used. This time to report on another google product that of Google Cardboard Camera, for taking VR photos. This just has to be a turning point for so many people, but for surveying, it has to open a new dimension in recording a room, ok the distortion does not help, but that will go, but its so good to spin a room and get the content and relationship thats just not available in a set of 2D photos, or a video, which I still take out of habit. And its available on the iPhone, the...

There is no doubt, Google maps has some very fine features for the Architectural Technologist, from the simple street view to maps view, but the best is Street View, dropping the little man onto the road where your property is located, and seeing the elevation. I use this a lot when setting up a new project, or if I have done a survey and that one shot of a side or from view is missing, then Google Street view has sorted it. You might want to view this great video, of Google maps use, Steve Dotto has 5 great tips, I think there is more, but the history tab is really cool. It does not always have history my own home is still 2009 as the last street view, but more popular places do, say the centre of Birmingham.