NokConv: Fueling the future of digital maps
Quick heads up on Nokia’s Navteq True technology which gathers a tremendous amount of data.
Navteq True, composed of four technologies:
- 360° LIDAR: Rotating lasers capture 1.3 million 3D digital data points every second, which generates a virtual 3D model of the world around the vehicle.
- Position Sensors: GPS and military grade Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors measure the vehicle’s speed, orientation and even gravitational forces to provide highly precise location references to every point within the virtual 3D model.
- Panoramic Cameras: These cameras layer in a 360° images synchronized to the 3D LIDAR points—giving us the most true to life representation of the world
- High Resolution Multi-View Cameras: High-resolution images give us the opportunity to increase automation so we can more quickly bring advanced location content to more people.
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Street view coming soon?
Yep… IBM, show me the path???…
yep nokia has nothing else to work on…since they don’t use their own OS anymore
agreed hopefully symbian nokia maps will be improved though :/
i hope so as well i want more location info on adresses like on google maps cause nokia maps doesn’t give enough and the locations aren’t as accureate
can you get anymore irrelevant?
Just like every other large corporation, Nokia is not working on 1 thing at a time. They work on multiple things simultaneously. Even if they had symbian, they would still work on maps.
hmm VW nice touch
cool video
So they are continuing to get data/images? I have City Scene on my N9 and while it’s very good, it is limited to only a few cities.
Nokia need something like this to really compete in the Location business.
great!
Amazing indeed. The NAVTEQ True cars have clearly superior camera setups than compared to Google’s mapping cars. The Google cars simply have static LIDAR (laser scanners) that each point in a static direction. The NAVTEQ cars have a 360 degree spinning LIDAR, that also captures more data points per second than Google’s cheaper static laser scanners.
Forgot to mention, as far as I know, the Google cars also do not have the military spec inertial movement units, that measure the pitch, slope, and curvature of the road as the mapping car travels.
I saw one of these Nokia/Bing vehicles scanning my local (UK) area back in July, so assume it’ll be part of the data set. Does anyone have any inside information on when they are likely to publish the map data into a usable service?
I don’t. Just to note that in the video they say the Nokia City Lens already uses this data – i.e. its not only useful for providing photorealistic 3D maps but also for just the accuracy of the raw data per se, e.g. (I assume) allowing the “show only those in line of sight” feature coming to the City Lens.
Hi guys, this is Pino from Nokia.
I know that when you see cameras on top of a car you all think of street level imageries, but please watch the video read the post carefully. It’s definitively not about that.
We are collecting precise data to make the best maps ever. Not only we know where streets are, but also how wide they are, whether they are steep, how tall bridges are, etc.
Plus, with the 3d data we collect we can create experiences like Nokia City Lens which in its Windows Phone 8 version can also understand whether a place is in your line of sight or not.
Last but not least, let me remind you that Nokia is not only competing the location business, Nokia is leading!
Hi Pino, and thanks for being so responsive – best practice among Nokia bloggers as far as I have seen! So I was for once right (see my comment above
).
I noticed the mention to city planning too.. quite exiting!
And now that I have appropriately complimented you, do you think the “only in line of sight” feature will come to City Lens on WP7.8?
Oh and hope you forgot to type “only” in this sentence: “It’s definitively not about that.”
cheers for the info Pino.
Once, my parents were being nostalgic about the university they studied and met at, and they were wondering if i could shows them some pictures of that university by searching on google.
I showed them google street view instead, they were really excited and my mom cried because it brought back memories of her uni days. They can talk about the exact street they lived in, the alleys they used to walk to uni, and even the store they used to buy goods from, which is right below where they live.
I wish i could do something like that with nokia maps. =/
“I showed them google street view instead, they were really excited and my mom cried because it brought back memories of her uni days. They can talk about the exact street they lived in, the alleys they used to walk to uni, and even the store they used to buy goods from, which is right below where they live.
I wish i could do something like that with nokia maps. =/”
That would be cool, but at 2 years ago, I read an article on Daily Tech of a Google Street View car that was attacked by a mob of residents from a wealthy neighbourhood when it passed through their area. If I recall, this was in the US and the residents threw stones and what not at it.
Not sure if any mapping company like Navteq would do a ‘Street View’ anytime soon after that incident.
Forgot to add that the residents fear that it will make it easier for robbers to target their homes, hence the attack on the Street View car. Not sure if Google took legal action against them for vandalism, or the residents suing Google for breach of privacy.
when are you guys going to be able to take the street level imagery and combine it with aerial footage to completely model buildings?
5 things i ask for
More info,More info,More info,smoother graphics specially on symbian…PROPER ADDRESSes for buildings….facilities
The panoramic imagery that is collected by Nokia True vehicles is being implemented into the Bing portal as their version ‘streetview’
You can find it in major metros and such as that is where collection occurred first, starting nearly 2 years ago.
Streetside is what it is called. You can find the icon next to the Traffic tab on bing maps.