On the cross-fertilization of geospatial and semantic web technology

City8: New Chinese 3D street map service

Google Street view is awesome. You can pan, zoom, and view street level photographs. Unfortunately, this service is only available for major cities in the US. If you want to see street views of Chinese cities, try city8.com (城市吧).

City8.com is Chinese web map service that shows street level photographs of major Chinese cities. The site also features some social web functions. Users can vote on popular city locations and recommend places to eat, shop and play.

A demo video (in Chinese) is available on the front page. Here is a view of the Beijing Tiananmen Square on City8.com.

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Spotted on: Virtual China

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