Free to access and reuse, Panoramax is the free alternative to the “street views” popularized by Google. Around thirty French towns contribute to the project with their photos, including Val Parisis Agglo.
Google is so omnipresent that it has become natural for any agent to check the presence of this or that street furniture in the immersive view of Google Maps. It’s practical but far from ideal. The photos are the property of Google, therefore unusable beyond a simple glance. Their quality is insufficient to observe the outcrops of underground networks. And then Google “has a commercial vision of the territory”, insists Christophe Munoz, director of territories at the Val Parisis agglomeration community (Val-d’Oise). Concretely: the shopping streets…
