Chinese company City8 enters online mapping fray

In Beijing, China, Geography, Mapping, Photography on 30 October 2007 with no comments

Using home-grown technology, a Chinese firm has upstaged the likes of Google and Microsoft with a mapping service featuring 360-degree street-level imaging of extraordinarily high resolution.

The Sydney Morning Herald covers City8’s entrance to the online mapping fray [web site and a sample street level view]. The catch? City8 has been around since 2005 and has done street level mapping since 2006, nearly a year before Google dropped Street View on an oversuspecting public.

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