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First 3D-city outside USA

Filed under: Other Cool Stuff — by Captain Hornblower at 2:14 pm on Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Google Earth offers more than 30 cities in 3D – all in the USA. Now Google is going to offer a new city in 3D – outside the USA!
The online version of the German news magazine Spiegel reports, that Google Earth is going to offer the first 3D city outside the USA. Within the next days or weeks, the German city Hamburg will be available. Hundreds of models with detailed textures will display downtown Hamburg.

Historical city hall of Hamburg
The complete article with a picture series and a little movie here – unfortunately only in German.

Update: Ogle Earth has a bit more info here.

Update: The first buildings are available! 

Google Earth Gaming

Filed under: Other Cool Stuff — by Captain Hornblower at 12:51 pm on Tuesday, January 16, 2007

gamona.de – the German online magazine for computergames – reviews about another use of Google Earth instead of peeking in the neighbors garden, finding aliens or preplaning the next vacations: gaming!

From GE War to Mars sucks – six different games bring more fun and popularity to the growing Google Earth community.

The whole review in gamona.de – only in German language!

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