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New 3D cities: some new, some ancient

Filed under: Software Updates — by Mickey at 5:27 pm on Friday, November 14, 2008

Google has brought out a handful of new 3D cities in the past few days.  Today saw the release of Seattle and Pittsburgh, both of which now have hundreds of full-color buildings and look excellent.  Here is a shot from Pittsburgh.

 

A few days ago, Google unveiled a new layer for Google Earth that has over 5700 hundred buildings from ancient Rome rebuilt in 3D.  It’s a slow-loading collection, but it is amazing.  Here is a short video introducing the new layer:

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2 Comments »

Comment by Senor Pescado

November 14, 2008 @ 6:45 pm

when will they have soem cities in Centroamerica
like San Salvador and Managua
and would love to see Sexta Avenida en Cali, Colombia

Comment by Tika

February 26, 2009 @ 3:11 am

Google guys are real crazy maniac… I never able to figure out what will they do next. And every time they did something… we can only say.. WOW…

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