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September 4, 2009
Two New 3D Cities in Google Earth: Dublin and Cardiff
Google has released two new cities in 3D for Google Earth: Cardiff, Wales and Dublin, Ireland. Google has been gradually adding more cities around the world with auto-generated 3D buildings covering a large percentage of the city. They do not replace user-generated models already present for these cities, but they do make the cities more complete when a city is added in this way. Google has still not revealed what process, or providers, they are using to produce these auto-generated models. But, it's still a nice thing to see and really gives you a closer representation to reality when viewing in Google Earth. Here's a video fly-through of the two new cities (I recommend clicking the "HD" button and selecting the full screen gadget to get the full video quality):
via Google Lat Long
Related:
- New Cities from June: Warsaw, Prague, Oslo, Toronto, Indianapolis; and Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto
- Round-up of other 3D Cities
Posted by FrankTaylor at September 4, 2009 7:36 AM
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Posted by: Aces at September 5, 2009 2:19 AM
so who actually did it,
Posted by: steve white at September 5, 2009 4:49 PM
this post isn't what google earth looks like google earth is nothing its a pointless program to have, so people complained about how you have pictures so then why isn't it in 3d so you can actually get real views of everything??
Posted by: Brandon at September 6, 2009 1:59 PM
seems they did it by processing stereo aerial photos
from the copyright notice the to companies earth infoterra and bluesky via their joint project http://www.bluesky-world.com/geoperspectives/
Posted by: steve white at September 8, 2009 4:44 PM
San Jose, California has been updated with auto-generated buildings too.
Posted by: Coasterboi at September 8, 2009 9:00 PM
It's wonderful to seewhat the world looks like when you haven't been to other countries. This is a great way to get others to see what the world looks like.
Posted by: Inugaq at September 11, 2009 1:19 PM
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Just to inform that São Paulo, Brazil, has also been almost fully added in 3d (but in gray non-textured). Considering the city has over 48 thousand buildings with over 12 floors, its worth checking out.