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December 17, 2009
New 3D cities: Tucson, AZ, Cleveland, OH and Florence, Italy
Google has just released three more cities in 3D, along with thousands of new user-generated models. The three new cities are Tucson, AZ, Cleveland, OH and Florence, Italy.
You can read details about the US cities on the SketchUp blog. They mentioned Florence in a tweet, and it indeed had quite an update as well.
Google offers up some nice suggestions for places to visit, such as the University of Arizona in Tucson or The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
Between the huge imagery update a few days ago and now this, there is a whole lot of new stuff to check out.
Are any of your favorite sights now in 3D? Tell us about it in the comments.
Posted by mickmel at December 17, 2009 2:40 PM
Comments
Posted by: Monica David at January 20, 2010 9:20 AM
How can I download the 3d city file?
Posted by: Tommaso at January 22, 2010 7:23 AM
Tommaso -- No need to. Just make sure the "3D buildings" layer is turned on, then fly to those cities. The 3D buildings will automatically begin to load.
Posted by: Mickey at January 22, 2010 8:24 AM
HI Mickey,
I would like to export the 3d geometry to some kind of 3d software (sketchup for instance),
It would be very helpfull for some architectural concept analysis.
Only a little part of 3d buildings are avaible on 3d warehouse,
Is there a method to export the geometry?
Posted by: Tommaso at January 22, 2010 9:10 AM
Sorry, but I don't know of any way to extract 3D data for buildings that aren't in the 3D Warehouse.
Posted by: Mickey at January 22, 2010 9:46 AM
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