Mid-November Google Street View launched in Germany with a very controversive discussion. Over 220.000 houses have been pixaleted, because someone (houseowner, tenant) was concerned about his privacy being violated be the public offering of the photos on Street View. Although Blurmany was the most successful launch of the product in its history. No country before showed more activity.
Without any problems, in the close neighbourhood, in Austria, the region of Obertauern launched, as they call it, an interactive plan to explore the wintersport ressort. Actually it’s a combination of 360° views from the ground and the air. Service points are integrated into the site to find hotels, ski routes, the namen of a peak, a bakery or a bar, which lead with a klick to according homepage. The plan itself can be seen on the official site of Tourism Obertauern.
Streetpano is simmilar to Google Street View, but with much higher resolution und much more detail.
This new solution comes from the agency Algo (Pongau, Austria) with their CEO, Alexander Gollegger. More than ten years has he invested in this technologie, which offers completely new panorama photography in high resolution and is held under top secret. With Airpano it is possible to produce nearly seamless 360° photographs, that are taken from an choplifter. In combination with Streetpano the region can be explored in its entirety.
Mario Siedler, CEO of the tourism organisation:
We are proud to give our guests with this project not just an orientation, but also to deliver a really good impression of the beauty, the proximity of the lifts, the compactness of the town and the winterathmosphere of Obertauern.
I will think of Obertauern while planning my comming winter holidays.
