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June 09, 2008
Links: 3D Cities Expanded, Backpacker, Touring Mode
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3D Cities Expanded - Google has announced they are expanding their Cities in 3D program to several European countries including the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands. The program encourages cities to provide Google with 3D data in a variety of formats, and Google will then convert the data so it can be presented in the Google Earth 3D Buildings layer.
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Backpacker - BACKPACKER Magazine has released their first ever digitally generated cover photo (see press release). They went to Google and asked them to create the shot using Google Earth. They emphasized how Google's 3D terrain and detailed imagery provdes "stellar detail" of beautiful places on our planet. BACKPACKER is in the process of promoting a new online service called iHike and apparently wanted to emphasize their new technological prowess by doing a techie cover page. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a high resolution scan of the cover.
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Touring Mode - Keir Clarke illustrated the new Disney World in 3D models by using the new Google Earth plugin in a post at GoogleMapsMania. He created placemarks for popular rides and sights at Disney World
, and let's you use the plugin to quickly fly to the different locations all from the comfort of your browser.
Posted by FrankTaylor at June 9, 2008 08:50 AM
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Posted by: chris at June 9, 2008 04:04 PM
new city in google map:)
Posted by: jonathan at June 10, 2008 03:42 PM
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GE may not have much success with 3D cities in the UK. On 8 August 2007 GE blog reported* that a major project by CASA of University College London to publish a 3D model of London was "dead in the water" because the UK government mapping agency, Ordnance Survey (OS), refused to licence Google to use the OS data on which the model was based.
May be things will be different with this new initiative, but OS is as obdurate as ever despite mounting criticism from members of the UK Parliament among many others in the GI community.
*http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/08/virtual_london_proje.html