OT How does GMaps know elevation?

On 07/31/2019 11:30 AM, Rob wrote:
This does not list "incorrect local terrain height" and also it is a
manual process for correcting errors. There is no such thing as a
feature in Google Maps that tracks your GPS position and reports it
back to Google for inclusion in the maps. The road information comes
from offcial (and their own) surveys, it is not like a road will be added
to the map when one or more Google Maps users cross a field somewhere.
Click to expand...

If the field happens to be a new development?
 
In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 1 Aug 2019 09:12:16 +1000, Clifford Heath
<no.spam@please.net> wrote:

On 31/7/19 9:17 am, micky wrote:
Did you all know that besides the Google Car, there is now the Google
Man, who wears the camera a couple feet above his head, and they have
streetview pictures of some places one can only walk.

Including inside some malls and department stores. I forget where I saw
that.
Click to expand...

Better be careful who you let into your house!
 
In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 31 Jul 2019 21:05:01 +0200, Robert Roland
<fake@ddress.no> wrote:

On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:17:45 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com
wrote:

I think once I saw google pictures from a bicycle.

They even use sheep these days:

https://visitfaroeislands.com/sheepview360/thanks-sheep-view-faroe-islands-now-google-street-view/
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Wow. That's good. They go slowly so the pictures won't be blurred.
 
In alt.home.repair, on 31 Jul 2019 17:30:36 GMT, Rob
<nomail@example.com> wrote:

This does not list "incorrect local terrain height" and also it is a
manual process for correcting errors. There is no such thing as a
feature in Google Maps that tracks your GPS position and reports it
back to Google for inclusion in the maps. The road information comes
from offcial (and their own) surveys, it is not like a road will be added
to the map when one or more Google Maps users cross a field somewhere.

And similarly, the local terrain height is not influenced by the height
indicated by users when they use Google Maps.
Click to expand...

How does GMaps get updates to street maps.

Does it infer the streets from computer analysing the sat view?

Or do municiplities send it updates when they construct new streets?

In some places, they show paths between houses with a dotted line? Who
tells GMaps about the paths? If you choose Walking, it will route you
over the path, but no other method of travel will go that way.
 
On 01/08/2019 00:12, Clifford Heath wrote:
On 31/7/19 9:17 am, micky wrote:
Did you all know that besides the Google Car, there is now the Google
Man, who wears the camera a couple feet above his head, and they have
streetview pictures of some places one can only walk.

Including inside some malls and department stores. I forget where I saw
that.
Click to expand...

Part of the Kennet and Avon Canal towpath in England is on "strretview"
, no street anywhere near


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On 7/31/19 11:18 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 1 Aug 2019 09:12:16 +1000, Clifford Heath
no.spam@please.net> wrote:

On 31/7/19 9:17 am, micky wrote:
Did you all know that besides the Google Car, there is now the Google
Man, who wears the camera a couple feet above his head, and they have
streetview pictures of some places one can only walk.

Including inside some malls and department stores. I forget where I saw
that.

Better be careful who you let into your house!
Click to expand...

We all know google leans left so why would you be afraid to have a democrat from google inventory your house?
Isn't socialism all about sharing?
 
On 08/01/2019 01:16 AM, N_Cook wrote:
On 01/08/2019 00:12, Clifford Heath wrote:
On 31/7/19 9:17 am, micky wrote:
Did you all know that besides the Google Car, there is now the Google
Man, who wears the camera a couple feet above his head, and they have
streetview pictures of some places one can only walk.

Including inside some malls and department stores. I forget where I saw
that.


Part of the Kennet and Avon Canal towpath in England is on "strretview"
, no street anywhere near
Click to expand...

https://mashable.com/2017/04/27/google-street-trekker-sg/

https://gizmodo.com/you-can-apply-to-use-googles-street-view-backpack-now-631925651
 
micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on 31 Jul 2019 17:30:36 GMT, Rob
nomail@example.com> wrote:


This does not list "incorrect local terrain height" and also it is a
manual process for correcting errors. There is no such thing as a
feature in Google Maps that tracks your GPS position and reports it
back to Google for inclusion in the maps. The road information comes
from offcial (and their own) surveys, it is not like a road will be added
to the map when one or more Google Maps users cross a field somewhere.

And similarly, the local terrain height is not influenced by the height
indicated by users when they use Google Maps.

How does GMaps get updates to street maps.

Does it infer the streets from computer analysing the sat view?

Or do municiplities send it updates when they construct new streets?
Click to expand...

The latter.
In regions with new streets or buildings you can see streets on the
streetview and bare land in the sat view.

In some places, they show paths between houses with a dotted line? Who
tells GMaps about the paths? If you choose Walking, it will route you
over the path, but no other method of travel will go that way.
Click to expand...
 
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On 07/31/2019 11:30 AM, Rob wrote:
This does not list "incorrect local terrain height" and also it is a
manual process for correcting errors. There is no such thing as a
feature in Google Maps that tracks your GPS position and reports it
back to Google for inclusion in the maps. The road information comes
from offcial (and their own) surveys, it is not like a road will be added
to the map when one or more Google Maps users cross a field somewhere.

If the field happens to be a new development?
Click to expand...

Streets are shown in new developments even when they not yet have been
laid, but have been submitted as planned.
 
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In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 31 Jul 2019 21:05:01 +0200, Robert Roland
fake@ddress.no> wrote:

On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:17:45 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com
wrote:

I think once I saw google pictures from a bicycle.

They even use sheep these days:

https://visitfaroeislands.com/sheepview360/thanks-sheep-view-faroe-islands-now-google-street-view/

Wow. That's good. They go slowly so the pictures won't be blurred.
Click to expand...

They go pretty fast when the Faroe Islanders are trying to fuck them.
 
That would be Utah!

Where the men are men, and the sheep are all nervous.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA
 
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In alt.home.repair, on 31 Jul 2019 17:30:36 GMT, Rob
nomail@example.com> wrote:


This does not list "incorrect local terrain height" and also it is a
manual process for correcting errors. There is no such thing as a
feature in Google Maps that tracks your GPS position and reports it
back to Google for inclusion in the maps. The road information comes
from offcial (and their own) surveys, it is not like a road will be added
to the map when one or more Google Maps users cross a field somewhere.

And similarly, the local terrain height is not influenced by the height
indicated by users when they use Google Maps.

How does GMaps get updates to street maps.
Click to expand...

Here they get it from the operation that is doing the new streets.

> Does it infer the streets from computer analysing the sat view?

That wouldn't give them the street names.

> Or do municiplities send it updates when they construct new streets?

Not send google so much as update their database and google accesses those.
We have seen it take a while before the google map is updated with new ones.
This is one example.
https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.2703494,146.0873386,16.33z
Tucker and Gillmartin are now well past Haines with new houses being
built on the new bits of Tucker and Gillmartin now.

In some places, they show paths between houses with a dotted line?
Who tells GMaps about the paths?
Click to expand...

With ours they are on the council maps, what you call municipalitys.

If you choose Walking, it will route you over the path,
but no other method of travel will go that way.
Click to expand...

Ours work fine for bicycles but google doesn't use them for bikes.
 
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On 01/08/2019 00:12, Clifford Heath wrote:
On 31/7/19 9:17 am, micky wrote:
Did you all know that besides the Google Car, there is now the Google
Man, who wears the camera a couple feet above his head, and they have
streetview pictures of some places one can only walk.

Including inside some malls and department stores. I forget where I saw
that.


Part of the Kennet and Avon Canal towpath in England is on "strretview" ,
no street anywhere near
Click to expand...

Can you post a proper link ? I can only get google maps to show photos of
it.
 
On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 04:30:52 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

<FLUSH senile asshole's latest trollshit>

04:30 am??? Whatsa matter, senile Rodent? Did you "sleep in" today? ROTFLOL

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On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 04:54:14 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


How does GMaps get updates to street maps.

Here they get it from the operation that is doing the new streets.
Click to expand...

Yeah, but HE is not "here", senile Ozzietard!

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On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 05:00:33 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


Part of the Kennet and Avon Canal towpath in England is on "strretview" ,
no street anywhere near

Can you post a proper link ? I can only get google maps to show photos of
it.
Click to expand...

Hey, senile useless troll, wouldn't THAT be the perfect job for you, you
ridiculous Google, M$ and Apple adorer: run around with a stupid Google
camera a few feet above your senile head and send the data to your beloved
Google? LOL

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micky wrote:

> Is there some topographical map underlying the google maps,
Several. USGS probably releases topographical data. There is also data from
the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). See:
https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/

Several projects attached to the Open Street Map project inculde tools to
integrate SRTM data into maps installable on various GPS devices.

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Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
Or do municiplities send it updates when they construct new streets?

Not send google so much as update their database and google accesses those.
We have seen it take a while before the google map is updated with new ones.
Click to expand...

I guess it depends on the quality of your local database.
Here we see new streets and quarters on Google Maps that do not yet
exist in reality (but have been planned and will be built).
 
"Rob" <nomail@example.com> wrote in message
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Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
Or do municiplities send it updates when they construct new streets?

Not send google so much as update their database and google accesses
those.
We have seen it take a while before the google map is updated with new
ones.

I guess it depends on the quality of your local database.
Click to expand...

The local database is fine, it just takes google a long time to use the
updates.

Here we see new streets and quarters on Google Maps that do
not yet exist in reality (but have been planned and will be built).
Click to expand...

That not necessarily due to the quality of the local database.

We saw the google car show up again here almost 18 months
ago, after it had been here previously more than 10 years
previously. The second time they only zoomed thru some
of the main streets in town and didn’t even bother to
visit the new roads and houses.
 
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 19:51:01 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
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