Chinese company City8 enters online mapping fray
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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The gentrification of Beijing’s hutongs
Iain Masterton takes photographs of Beijing’s hutongs, the city’s maze of narrow streets and alleyways. These hutongs–and the way of life they foster–are increasingly falling victim to rapid and unchecked development. Sean Gallagher documents their destruction in a collection of photographs entitled Bye Bye Beijing.
Update: A simple Google image search also turns up some great hutong photographs.