![]() ![]() The idea here is that this content works as a pastime. Some cities or regions, such as Manhattan and New York City, are presented in 3D, but the traditional Maps view remains applicable to almost all content. I wonder if the connections between Larry Page and East Lansing have something to do with the fact that Ann Arbor still hasn’t been rendered, while East Lansing has been twice.What about drive a car through any city in the world using only google maps? It’s an idea driving simulatorr, created as a plugin for Google Earth – is called 3D driving simulator – and which can be played today in the version below. The scaffolding on the Capitol Dome makes it hard to judge, but the curving corner of the former Knapp’s Department Store (Washington and Washtenaw) is probably worse than the previous render, and the Michigan Hall of Justice on the west end of the state government complex also has issues, to name a few. Curved buildings still seem to be a challenge. The airport lies just outside the new rendering. Airplanes in some cities actually have a tail section that connects to the fuselage, rather than floating in space. Trees are also more realistic, to the extent that you can sometimes tell what kind they are. One thing about the latest renderings is that they actually do stationary cars. Colors seem a bit gaudy (and not just on some of the new apartment buildings, which are, indeed, gaudy). It’s visible from the south, but not the north. There is an interesting phenomenon caused by a moving Pepsi truck on the Shiawassee Street Bridge. It doesn’t cover quite all the area covered by the previous 3D rendering. There are several new buildings and construction projects, as well as the renovation of the Capitol Dome that date it. The imagery is from sometime during the past summer, around the same time as the non-3D was most recently updated (July). Lansing and East Lansing, Michigan have been updated within the last two weeks or less. To see where all the 3D imagery is download our KML file Hong Kong must have been a particularly difficult challenge to photograph, with all its tall buildings and mountains. The Verrazano Narrows Bridge between Staten Island and Brooklyn, New York. One reason for the long processing time is that Google puts extra effort into certain structures such as bridges, as can be seen below. ![]() ![]() It is hard to put an exact date on most of the 3D imagery, but when we have been able to identify the date the imagery is typically released six months to a year after it was captured. California alone has more 3D than any country in the world other than the US. US states are listed separately as the US has more coverage than the rest of the world. If you are interested in the areas by country, you can download the figures as a. Areas calculated with the help of this site. Google has released a significant number of updates to already existing 3D, but that is harder to track, so we have not attempted to keep a record.Īrea in square kilometres of 3D released by Google. It must be noted also that we are looking at areas not previously covered with 3D or expansions to existing areas. Take the figures as approximate as we found significant discrepancies in our totals suggesting we have some mistakes in our KML map (which we are looking in to). If we got our map and calculations reasonably correct then it seems September was a particularly good month as far as new 3D is concerned. It has been a while since we last looked at the progress of 3D imagery in terms of area covered. [Update: It turns out the September figures are wrong (thank you Frank) due to errors in the KML not being handled well by the Area calculator we used. ![]()
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