Here’s a powerful—if ungainly (“…Ladies”) new wearable tool for map makers. TechCrunch writes,
The Cartographer uses a process called “simultaneous localization and mapping” (SLAM), a technique that’s typically used for mapping new locations and that Google is now putting to use to map anything from hotels to museums.
As the backpacker walks through a building, the floor plan is automatically generated in real time, Google says. The wearer also uses a tablet to add points of interest while walking around the building (say room numbers in a hotel or the exhibits in a museum).
Wait until the hackers get into this: room numbers, layouts of museums, businesses, public buildings. Then they are sold to the highest bidder. Google is slowly but surely destroying privacy.