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by bastawhiz 487 days ago
This is great! Back in 2009 or so, I took dozens of high-resolution photos with my digital camera from the observation spot at Sutro Tower (towards the city, not the tower), and combined the images together in Microsoft Photosynth [0] to create an astoundingly high resolution point cloud of the city. I started with lots of zoomed-out photos, then took an overlapping grid of photos at various zoom levels. I wish Photosynth was still around; I'd love to look at the result again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynth

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the tower released some gigapixel imagery from the top at https://explore.sutrotower.com/