This is amazing! A team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill wrote a software program that searches through photos of a city on Flickr. Once it has gathered them together, the program decides which photos are from the same location. The software then analyzes the images to create detailed 3-D models.
Paul Adams
Paul Adams leads an award-winning, diverse contractor team that runs a federal high performance computing facility where he has worked for 17 years. He loves getting his hands on the latest visualization and computer hardware, astronomy, aerospace engineering, working with the poor, and ringing cowbells.
Looks good, but desperately needs hi-res photography. Imagine the results if you send one photographer with a good camera to photograph a single location and return with 1000 in focus, well exposed images.