{"id":237,"date":"2007-06-29T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=237"},"modified":"2007-06-29T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T17:03:00","slug":"mapjack-and-earthmine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"MapJack and EarthMine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapjack.com\/\">MapJack.com<\/a> is a street-level image viewer mashed-up with Google Maps.&nbsp; The image quality is much better than Google's Streetview, but the 3D feel is not quite as immersive.&nbsp; Personally, I'll trade better image quality for 3D immersiveness.&nbsp; <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapjack.com\/default.htm#tmEnWne5bFbB\">Try \"driving\" down the famous Lombard Street<\/a><\/b> in San Francisco using MapJack &#8212; this is the crookedest street in the US.&nbsp; Currently MapJack only offers views in the heart of San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webware.com\/8301-1_109-9735721-2.html\">Earthmine<\/a> also plans to offer high-resolution images at a street-view, but their focus seems to be more on selling this data to companies, governments, etc.&nbsp; They may put a web front-end on the data, but that does not seem to be their focus.<\/p>\n<p>Google Map's \"Street View\" seems to have unleashed a flood of similar offerings.&nbsp; To be fair, I'm sure that they've all been under development for a while, it's just that the buzz around Google Street View has made them more visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MapJack.com is a street-level image viewer mashed-up with Google Maps.&nbsp; The image quality is much better than Google's Streetview, but the 3D feel is not quite as immersive.&nbsp; Personally, I'll trade better image quality for 3D immersiveness.&nbsp; Try \"driving\" down the famous Lombard Street in <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=237\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}