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May 28, 2010
Venice in 3D and more Building Maker enhancements
A couple of neat bits of news for those of you that appreciate all of the 3D buildings in Google Earth.
First, Google has just released Venice, Italy in 3D. As with all of their recent 3D cities, Venice is stunning. The city is packed solid with 3D buildings and it looks very nice. Here's a brief video overview of the new additions:
In addition to that, Google has made some nice improvements to Building Maker. When creating your building, you now have the option of using your own photos to tile the buildings, rather than being forced to use the imagery that they provide. While this probably won't help in most cases, it will help some buildings coming out of Building Maker to look even better!
Posted by mickmel at May 28, 2010 6:44 AM
Comments
Posted by: Anton at May 28, 2010 9:06 AM
Just amazing
Posted by: sudhindra patry at May 29, 2010 3:05 AM
This new feature in Building Maker is ideal for the borders of coverage of Building Maker where only one side of buildings is not photographed.
Posted by: PaSKud at May 29, 2010 5:39 AM
should update the satellite images on Google Map Maker
Posted by: wroman at May 29, 2010 10:26 AM
Wow, Venice looks wonderful, thanks to all those who worked on it.
also, your blog is excellent
Posted by: Paolo at May 30, 2010 4:22 PM
So who did all this modeling work? Was it some initiative of the city, or from the Google Earth team somehow? Any suggestions for getting other cities covered?
Posted by: Dan Brickley at October 15, 2011 9:51 AM
Just visted Venice and I must say that your efforts have really done a fantastic job, this way it's a little easier for me to imagine I am still there :(
Posted by: dan wakeman at October 27, 2011 5:32 PM
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omg Venice is now really amazing!!