Peer Inside Your Neighbor's House
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An anonymous reader writes "Mapping applications like Google Earth have let us peer over the fence and into our neighbors' yards for a while now. For the voyeur crowd this peering is limited to a birds-eye-view of the yard and roof. New applications like Mapwing are overcoming these limitations and taking users right inside their neighbor's properties with an unprecedented level of detail. Based on the idea of local positioning, rather than global, this system lets users draw or provide their own maps and reveal details that are not visible from space. It also uses directional photography to link images to the map based upon the direction and location at which they were taken. The images can be connected spatially to provide a highly detailed walkthrough of a place."