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How long before Google wants to drive around inside our houses?
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Tom
Life is simple - Eat, Drink, Play with trains
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Well that was a major disappointment
, I thought they would have a camera on one of those HO cars for a real view as it drove around the layout. Google needs to pick it up a notch!
Mike
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I think they used a lot of C G to make that. A skier leaving tracks in the snow? I think there is a lot of male bovine excrement in that.
Robert
Modeling the Canadian National prairie region in 1959.
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We always learn far more from our own mistakes, than we will ever learn from another's advice.
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Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!
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Wunderland has nothing to do with Google. It's a computer controlled, highly animated miniature world of incredible detail and size. They added the Google mapping car because people see them all of the time.
The vehicles drive around following wires built into the roadways, a system available for modelers, BTW, and much of the equipment such as fire trucks, airport equipment and so forth is automated. The planes, you will noticed, take off and land constantly.
Wunderland has more computer capacity than most small to medium industries.
