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Originally posted by blackeyed: ↑

Guys this will make Nearmap obsolete
Chinese company said it created a photo with such a high resolution that you can zoom from thousands of meters away to see people's facial expressions

Christian Edwards
Dec 21, 2018, 6:12 PM

BigpixelA view of Shanghai via BigPixel’s high-resolution image.
You might call this the pinnacle of high-resolution images.
The image, the brainchild of a company called Jingkun Technology, or BigPixel, was taken from atop the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, China.
The company said the photo’s resolution is a mind-blowing 195 gigapixels.
The resolution of digital cameras and smartphones is often measured in megapixels, or 1 million pixels – so a 12-megapixel camera, for example, can produce images with 12 million total pixels. But in this case we’re talking about gigapixels, or 1 billion pixels.
Click the link below to try the zoom feature yourself.
Here’s the brief story of an obscenely large picture.
It’s the brainchild of a company called Jingkun Technology, or BigPixel, taken from atop the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, China.
What it is not, contrary to chatter on social media this week, is some evil new Chinese satellite “quantum technology.”
It’s just a very, very big picture, and according to the company, more than 8 million people have explored it.
The company said the photo’s resolution is a mind-blowing 195 gigapixels.
The resolution of digital cameras and smartphones is often measured in megapixels, or 1 million pixels – a 12-megapixel camera, for example, can produce images with 12 million total pixels. But in this case we’re talking about gigapixels, or 1 billion pixels.
BigPixel reckons its photos are more than 2,000 times as precise as those captured by an ordinary camera, and that its 360-degree snapshot of a sunny Shanghai day is the world’s third-biggest photo and Asia’s largest.
The company says it’s a collection of images taken over a few months and integrated using image-stitching technology.
BigPixel says this is its first panorama with hundreds of billions of pixels. The result is an unearthly, uncanny, unsettling ability to zoom in so close to the oblivious person on the street that you can literally see their facial expression – making the technology’s potential for covert surveillance quite obvious.

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Isn't this technology just a really high resolution camera taking a picture on top of a building?

Nearmap's IP is not just in their own high resolution camera systems, it is their ability and consistency to do high altitude aerial photography from inside a small ultra light aeroplane that is traveling at well over 300km/h. There camera system will need to record extremely accurate GPS coordinates and provide stabilisation to withstand extreme air turbulences & compensate for general aircraft vibrations in real time without adversely affecting picture quality. In addition, any would be Nearmap competitor will also need to crack the ability to accurately stitch tens and even hundreds of thousands of images within hours of them being taken then publish the information in a usable manner to a massive user audience.

Although you've alerted us to an interesting article, but I would hardly rate using a very high resolution camera taking a downward looking photo from the top of a building a challenger to Nearmap's technological Advantage.

The article also doesn't provide any details as to how many images are being stitched together? 2,4,6,12?
For example, are they stitching a dozen photos taken on top of a very stationary building with a camera mounted on a very stationary tripod over a few days ? Then these dozen images are then manually stitched via a mix of "photoshop" and "human eye matching technology" in a back office sweat shop in China ? Nobody really knows & conveniently the article doesn't provide any details at all.

I also want to highlight that none of the reference links in the article provided any details to this technology either, but suffice to say that none of the photos were taking directly downward (i.e at 90 degrees) from an aircraft. All their sample photos feel like as if they have been taken on top of other buildings.

Not sure why anyone thinks this will make Nearmap obselete.
This is like saying a banana will make an orange obsolete because they are both fruits that you can eat.
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