[OSM-talk] Google StreetMap embedding Flickr photos

[John Smith]

On 2 March 2010 04:36, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> Wikipedia is a whole different beast.  It'll likely be replaced by Google
> when and if Google come out with a breakthrough in natural language
> processing.  It looks like that breakthrough has already come in terms of
> creating a 3D model of the world.  All that's left is taking lots of raw,
> dumb pictures.  No sense in wasting manpower over something a bunch of
> unmanned dirigibles could do.

Yes and we've been told for years that in 5 years time computers will
program themselves. While computers may be able to crunch numbers,
they can't just mash a bunch of information together and make
something useful and interesting.