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Introducing the world's first virtually explorable Delta
As of today, we have uploaded and made available the first 1000 panoramas taken from the Danube Delta. The panoramas were taken with the support of the National Marine Geology and Geoecology Research and Development Institute - GeoEcoMar (www.geoecomar.ro). Feel free to visit the Street-view section of our website and explore one of the most beautiful natural habitats in Romania, declared as being part of the world heritage by UNESCO. Navigate through the panoramas using the arrows and the mouse to take a full tour of the Delta. Try using full screen to get the maximum relaxation effect. The Danube (...) Continue reading
Norc StreetView takes you to the best road in the world!
We have just finished creating the panoramic street-views for, a national Romanian road that crosses the Carpathian Mountains, connecting Muntenia to Transilvania. You can now visit one of the most spectacular roads in the world, using our StreetView service, and share the place you like the most, with the help of panolinks. Jeremy Clarkson, one of the presenters of the famous Top Gear show called the Transfagarasan "the best road in the world" According to Jeremy, the Transfagarasan Road is so spectacular, that it surpasses even the Stelvio Pass, in Italy. You can start the street-view tour of the Transfagarasan (...) Continue reading
Street panoramas now with 3D effect for six Eastern and Central European Countries
NORC, the only Eastern European street view service that covers 6 countries across CEE from Romania to Austria has enabled its panoramic imagery to be viewed in 3D with cyan-magenta stereoscopic glasses. The 3D effect adds depth and perspective to street-level panoramas when viewed with cyan-magenta stereoscopic glasses. All street-level panoramas that NORC covers across CEE (Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Austria) can now be viewed in 3D.Try it now, if you have a pair of 3D glasses at hand: (...) Continue reading
Write a review in norc.ro!
If you've visited www.norc.ro recently, you've probably noticed that we have a new section which gives you lots of valuable information about the urban jungle. In the review section (available only for Romanian site at the moment) you can find restaurants, cinemas, art galleries and all sorts of other places from Bucharest, Constanta, Iasi and Cluj. Bucharest is the „most populated" city in NORC, having over 1000 locations mapped. You can look on our site for a bank, a shop, a vet, a beauty parlor and many other useful places - you name them. What's more, you can add locations (...) Continue reading
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
Panoramas from the Austrian Alps
As winter holiday is on its way, we thought you'll be in the mood for skiing and hiking. The NORC team took a trip in the Austrian lands of Tirol, Vorarlberg and Salzburg. For more than four weeks we drove our norcmobiles through the Austrian Alps and we managed to turn 2600 kilometers into the most beautiful panoramas. Honestly, we really liked what we discovered there. The panoramas are already online. You can take a virtual trip to Innsbruck, Axams, Ischgl. Zell am See, Kitzbuhel or Krumbach anytime now. If you enjoyed the resorts, all you have to do is (...) Continue reading
Geolocalisation using Open Street Map
Maybe you are wondering how come we can pinpoint a location on the map. Or maybe you are wondering which kind of map we are using, or if it is correct. Our work is updating continuously and the same goes with the data we work on. We have chosen to work on the information given by Open Street Map which is kind of a Wikipedia of the maps. That is Open Street Map is user generated. Open Street Map allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. Sometimes the information (...) Continue reading
NORC opens hailing frequencies
We are a bunch of guys who had a dream: to put this side of the world on the map through panoramic images. We did that all by ourselves, with the technology we developed and we didn't think for one second that this was impossible. The most difficult thing was building the first car. We had to think about how to position the cameras, which angles they should capture, for how long, how they should synchronize with the computers inside. But this is why we were quite busy since January 2008 and it is only now that we want to (...) Continue reading