October 2009 Archives
Bigger, better, faster, more
Recently, we've made a few adjustments to our site. We've re-written the algorithm for positioning on the map. Now, you can use the maps from over 600 cities in Romania, not only those which we had already covered and transformed into panoramas. Moreover, we have improved the street level positioning. Now on each panorama we have the approximate address of the place where it has been taken (country, city and most of the times also the street). You might find this feature interesting especially if you want to send a panorama to a friend or use it as an (...) Continue reading
Office on wheels
The NORC vans are equipped with everything you can find in a regular office - computer, keyboard, monitor and even a mouse. Two things are missing indeed - the fax machine and the printer. Instead we have the cameras on top of the car that need our special attention. As the Norcmobiles are genuine offices on wheels that transform spectacular or mundane sites and sceneries into panoramas, the cameras are the stars. The resolution has to be checked regularly as the light changes and all the cameras have to shot in the same time. When the system desynchronizes, the (...) Continue reading
What's Cookin' Doc?
Maybe you've seen the NORC car passing through your town, a Dacia Logan van, with more cameras on top. I'm not sure though you were lucky enough to see the first NORC car which had a cooking pot on it. Because there was such a thing, at the time when our cars were still in beta. We've started to equip the first car in February 2008. One of the problems was that we had to figure out was how to attach the cameras so that they stay fixed on their stand. A colleague had the crazy idea to use (...) Continue reading