Patent ID: 8026929

Claim:
A system for generating pose data for posing a 2D image of a scene aligned within the environment of the scene as rendered by a 3D model of the environment of the scene and of numerous other scenes, the system comprising: a user interface configured to receive a digital representation of the 2D image; a user interface configured to allow the user to specify an approximate location of the scene on a two-dimensional geographic map; a 3D graphics engine configured to cause the 3D model to jump to a rendering at the approximate location specified by the user in response to the user specifying the approximate location so as to place corresponding features common to both the 2D image and the jumped-to-rendering of the 3D model simultaneously in view of the user in a manner sufficient to allow the user to match these corresponding features; a user interface configured to allow the user to match the corresponding features between the 2D image and the rendering of the 3D model; and a processing system configured to generate the pose data based on the corresponding matched between the 2D image and the rendering of the 3D model by the user.