Reading Time: < 1 min The Virtual Earth 3D blog has a post today that explains in detail how they create each 3D city. From the article: Microsoft’s acquisition of Vexcel Corporation, a 20-year old provider of remote sensing solutions, provided the Virtual Earth team with a broad background in photogrammetry, geospatial data production, and digital elevation model (DEM) generation […]
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3D Campus buildings are now in the default 3D layer
Reading Time: < 1 min As reported by the Google Earth Blog, the winners of the “Build Your Campus in 3D” are now available in Google Earth. Check them out in Google Earth, or watch the video that gives a brief tour of each campus.
Google’s “Build Your Campus in 3D” winners announced
Reading Time: < 1 min As announced on the Google Lat Long blog, today Google revealed the winners of their “Build Your Campus in 3D Competition“. They are: University of Minnesota – Department of Architecture Purdue University – Departments of Computer Graphics Technology and Education Concordia University, Loyola Campus – Department of Civil Engineering Stanford University – Department of Architectural […]
Update to the Google Earth 3D Buildings layer
Reading Time: < 1 min Google has just pushed out their June update to the 3D buildings layer. Some cities with updates include Chicago, Christchurch (New Zealand), Karachi, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Moscow. In addition, there is a big bug in this update. There is a building in western Turkey that looks like a normal house but is about 11 […]
Complete 3D model of Rome, circa 320 A.D.
Reading Time: < 1 min This is both amazingly cool and horribly frustrating. The Institute for the Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia has built a complete 3D model of the city of Rome as it was in 320 A.D. “Rome Reborn”, as it’s called, is astoundingly sharp and consists of billions of data points. FTA: […]
Want to help model a city?
Reading Time: < 1 min In an effort to get more cities modeled in 3D, Google has created a new category in the 3D Warehouse titled “Help Model a City“. They’re encouraging users such as yourself to go in there and help create some of these models. So far they have five cities listed — Ann Arbor, Michigan : Amherst, […]
Why did Google create Street View?
Reading Time: 2 min The more I think about it, the more I question why Google spent so much time and money implementing “Street View”. Sure, it’s neat — but isn’t it just a temporary (and unnecessary) step? With the advancements in 3D buildings in Google Earth (and Virtual Earth, for that matter), making your own “Street View” of […]