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July 10, 2008
Roses First 3D City in Spain for Google Earth
Roses is the first city in Spain to get their entire city in 3D for Google Earth. The models are currently the basic gray buildings without textures. But, they are part of the Google Earth 3D Buildings layer. Just search for "Roses, Spain" to see for yourself. Google has a program called Cities in 3D (read more) to help city planners provide Google with data so their cities can be included in the layer. The program was just expanded to several European countries (including Spain) in early June. According to GEB reader Albert Garcia, they are also working to add SketchUp models with photo-textures for Roses.
Google has dozens of cities now where a large percentage of the urban area is modeled in 3D (more in the US than any other country at the moment). Here is a list of some cities in Europe where most of the city is in 3D: Zurich, Munich, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Westport in Ireland. Berlin also has a huge 3D collection they created themselves, but it's not part of the built-in GE layer. Similarly, Dresden in Germany also did their own layer which is not yet part of the built-in layer. And, let's not forget, probably the most 3D data available for any country is in Japan. Nearly every structure for several major cities is rendered if you turn on the 3D Buildings layer and visit cities in Japan.
Posted by FrankTaylor at July 10, 2008 08:40 AM
Comments
Posted by: Marc B. at July 10, 2008 11:46 AM
Nicely delivered,
Can't wait for delivery of roses and flowers
to spain
Thanks,
Jimmy
Posted by: Jim Davis at July 11, 2008 02:03 PM
Catalonia is not (or shouldn't be) Spain!!
Posted by: Toni at July 11, 2008 04:32 PM
Por desgracia para el resto de los españoles, Cataluña sigue siendo parte de España
Posted by: Alejandro at July 12, 2008 03:08 AM
Roses IS in Spain, and Catalonia is part of Spain, of course. Some of you need a geography lesson. Nacionalistas incluidos. JA!
Posted by: Fred at July 12, 2008 05:57 AM
Catalonia was Aragon kingdom's part. Aragon jointed with Castilian, for the Catolics Kings's marriage. This is the history. The rest is inventions.
Posted by: John Miles at July 12, 2008 06:06 AM
Catalonia is Spain since 1492, scatterbrains.
Posted by: Spaniard at July 12, 2008 06:50 AM
Catalonia is not in the UN. Catalonia doesn't issue passports. Catalonias don't have an ID different from the rest of the citizens of Spain. Catalonia is not a country but a very rich group of provinces in Spain.
Anything else is some fascist's dreams, and normal people nightmares.
Posted by: Spaniard in Dublin at July 12, 2008 09:09 AM
Spanish coastline northeast of Barcelona got new images
Posted by: Mucbarney at July 12, 2008 09:11 AM
Catalonia is not spain, Spain is a state oppressor.
Posted by: Xavisu at July 13, 2008 10:27 AM
Dejad las discusiones político/geográficas a un lado y pensad qlo triste que es que sólo tengamos una ciudad en 3D cuando muchas capitales de la Unión Europea tienen ya muchas...
A ver cuando sale Madrid o Valencia, que eso sí sería interesante.
Posted by: Alvaro at July 14, 2008 03:18 AM
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