[OSM-talk] Distance to opacity (OT)

[Laurence Penney]

On 24 Sep 2009, at 22:35, Ian Dees wrote:
> Their streetview cars also use LIDAR to get a depthmap as they drive.

They're surely not transmitting LIDAR 3D data to the Street View Flash  
viewer. I wonder what the minimum would be for this effect. I doubt  
that "steps" (a return to a horizontal patch once it's switched to  
vertical) are handled, so perhaps just a small set of horizon angular  
offsets for each Street View viewpoint is sufficient, each one given a  
heading and an elevation, the latter being where to start verticality,  
the elevation to use for any Street View heading being interpolated in  
the viewer.

- L