http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/11/20/nyregion/nypd-crime-scene-panoramas.html
Over the past two years, the NYPD has been taking panoramic images of crime scenes
in an attempt to better record the evidence.
I think it really is an excellent tool as investigators can point and click over evidence from a scene
that they might have missed in the hectic hours after the crime since no one, it doesn't matter how skilled at
assessing a crime scene or an scene, sees everything there. Yeah right.
Moreover, I believe
this gives the police a further opportunity to go back over a crime
scene after it has been dismantled.