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So you've driven to San Francisco in your 2008 Bullitt Edition Mustang. You have the Garmin plugged into the cigarette lighter, an iPod full of Lalo Schifrin and you're not leaving until you've blown out your shocks on that street where Steve McQueen caught air again and again. You know, the really hilly one? Wait, there's more than one really hilly street in San Francisco?
Since the SF Convention and Visitors Bureau is highly unlikely to provide a map of historical sites where you can burn out your tires and terrify pedestrians, the kind folks at Seero.com have a solution: a GPS overlay of the entire chase, mapping out every fender-smashing second. Seero calls it "geo-broadcasting," and the same technology can be used with live or pre-recorded videos. For example, in your Bullitt reenactment, you can send out a live geo-broadcast to let the folks back home see where you bottomed out your Mustang, the very streets you marked with a trail of oil and the exact spot you were taken into police custody.Seero is the brainchild of Justin Cutillo, David Rothschild, and Dan Rummel who started the site to let us poor slobs stuck behind computer screens see the world through someone else's eyes -- or at least through someone else's Flip. Rothschild said technology has "just gotten up to speed within the past year or so" to enable such live GPS-linked video shenanigans as Alex Roy's insane Cannonball Run record. Unlike other video sites, Seero uploads the exact coordinates of where a video took place from a GPX file collected by a GPS device, and lets the user pair the GPS data with the video file. "If you knew you were taking a turn, you could pause the video and line it up. It's as simple as that," Cutillo said.
According to Rothschild, interest in the site grew from fans of geocaching expeditions and "outdoorsy adventures" to a dedicated "niche market of gearheads and bikers" who want to record their travels and remember exactly where that awesome pie stand was, or to chronicle just how lost they got in the far reaches of Quebec. One user hooked up a video camera to a remote-control plane and showed off films of the French countryside, while another walked across the Pacific Crest Trail. Needless to say, Cutillo and Rothschild admit they're jealous of some of the trips Seero users submit to the site.
For those of us who thought GPX was a company who makes those boomboxes they sell in drugstores, the Seero interface is also cool for creating mashups like the McQueen video, to show exactly where a chase scene took place or even to overlay GPS coordinates to an old family road trip Super 8 movie. Home users will even be able to follow along the exact route of car chases, as Seero is planning to link up local news choppers with GPS and video technology that will be broadcast live. We're anxiously awaiting the O.J. Simpson white Bronco mashup.
By the way, the jump shown above was filmed on Filbert Street.
Photo courtesy Seero.
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