EPISODE · Oct 26, 2009 · 1 MIN

Virtual Vacation

from US News | Science Discoveries · host National Science Foundation

A new computer algorithm developed at the University of Washington uses hundreds of thousands of tourist photos to automatically reconstruct entire cities in about a day. The tool harnesses the increasingly large digital photo collections available on photo-sharing Web sites such as Flickr.

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