Use Google Street View to Create Game World?

Is it possible to use something like Google street view to create 3D models that can be used to create game locations? Like The Getaway used London and the creators had to go round taking pictures of all the streets to make it look as real as possible. Now most of Europe, North America, Australia are just some of the places covered by Google Earth.

Is there a program that can recognize from the size of the objects in the images how big something is in real life, and then go on to build an accurate 3D model of it?

If so this could mean that people can create accurate 3D worlds or nearly the entire world, all of which could be used in games (among other things)Use Google Street View to Create Game World?
I don't think that there is a program capable of building 3d models from Google maps (yet :P) but i remember stumbling across a graffiti game in which you travelled around New York in Google street-view and could paint on the side of buildings and trucks. The graphics were fairly pixellated, but the program managed to stick your graffiti to the walls, and even applied perspective when you rotated and panned the view.



Somehow this game managed to recognise how far away the buildings were, and even the angle you were viewing them from, so I'm confident that sometime soon your idea might be a reality. :)

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