Photos: Cartography in the Internet era
Photos: Cartography in the Internet era
Tele Atlas provides data to companies involved with digital mapping and the like, such as Yahoo and Google. The information is used to ensure that maps are accurate and up to date. This Tele Atlas van is equipped with six video cameras on top and three servers inside for recording and storing street names and other data.
Photos: Cartography in the Internet era
A view of the inside of the van reveals three custom-built computers with 3GHz IBM Pentium 4s; an Omnistar global positioning system unit; a heating unit for the video cameras; and an external hard drive for data backup.
Photos: Cartography in the Internet era
Putting the streets of San Francisco in their proper place.
Photos: Cartography in the Internet era
Tele Atlas local data collector Luca Comi operates the computer system that shows video camera shots of streets.
Photos: Cartography in the Internet era
It's not clear whether this unfortunate, tire-changing cabbie will be noted on a Yahoo or Google map, but he could be if necessary. For the record, the poor fellow carried out his grim task here.