Streetview intros DIY mapping tech

CNET reports.

DIY Street View lets people create their own versions of Google's popular, unpopular and sometimes artsy high-tech atlas.

According to Gizmodo, the heart of the kit is an elevated camera that uses six sensors to create a single 30MP image that captures 90% of the world around it.

Exposures are snapped every three seconds and are automatically levelled, stitched and geo-tagged by an included image processing server software.

Users cannot upload their own Street View captures and have them rolled into the Google Maps database, but they can embed their own views onto their own Web sites with the same navigation functionality that Google Maps offers.

The company is aiming its technology at DIY enthusiasts who live in a country that will not likely be covered by Google Street View soon, Slash Gear writes.

The company claims its customers include a mapping company from South America, a railway planning company in the US, and a company that performs compliance checks for a US government agency. The company even hinted that some military agencies are using its technology.