This is pretty freakin' cool. It basically uses software to analyze photos and link them together for 3d purposes. Check out the linked video to see what I'm talking about.

Something like this teamed with google earth would be freakin' awesome.

http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/findingpaths/

Fontana Trevi!

Yeah I think thats cool. Flickr may be of help too, but isn't that part of Google Maps now? I don't know.

heh pretty cool, I remember when I was at Uni one of our lecturers was going on about doing stuff like this, not to the extent of being able to zoom in etc but certainly to the extent of creating panoramas that you could scroll around just using images.

who knows, maybe he's on the team that did this.

It's still a fledgling project I believe....this and another one like it are probably just demoing the possibilities. If/when they can automate it to scan the interweb for photos and automatically correlate them, that's when this will become a killer app.

That's pretty damn awesome. I mean, the tool An Sich looks a bit rudimentary (I know, I know, it's a prototype) but if they streamline it it could prove to be very effective and cheap (for the user, that is).

Too bad that it will only work for monuments and other places that are frequently and reverently photographed. It's no google earth with sattelite pwnage.

well, it's now been released to the public. You can check it out here.

photosynth.com

Requires a plugin you can download from the page that works in FF (and I'm sure IE). No real choice of places to look at...just refresh the page to get something else. Still more of a beta project imo, but it's still neat.