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January 28, 2011
How did Belgrade get such great 3D models?
If you've visited Belgrade in Google Earth lately, you may have been surprised by the quality of the 3D buildings there. Belgrade is not available in Building Maker, and it's not a city that's had some auto-generated buildings from Google placed there, but yet there are a ton of models in the city. Beyond that, these buildings are good. Notice the 3D bushes on the balcony of this building, and the 3D trees (which aren't the new "Version 6" trees) below:
The idea to model Belgrade came from Zeljko Zdravkovic, who himself has modeled well over 500 buildings that you'll find in Google Earth. In fact, the "Lets build digital Belgrade" collection in the 3D Warehouse has well over 800 models in it!
Zeljiko recently gave a presentation in the council building of New Belgrade, where he was able to show what he's accomplished, discuss how the process works, and share future plans for 3D buildings in other local areas.
To see Belgrade for yourself, you can fly there using this KML file
. Great work Zeljiko!
Posted by mickmel at January 28, 2011 8:00 AM
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Posted by: hackshack at January 28, 2011 11:46 AM
@hackshack -- Great point! I had intended to mention that in the post as well, but (obviously) forgot to.
The whole city will look so much better once some higher-quality imagery is in place there.
Posted by: Mickey at January 28, 2011 12:46 PM
Unusual building http://www.box.net/shared/smjz05sclq
This is the first thing you see when you enter New Belgrade from highway :)
Posted by: barakuda at January 28, 2011 2:29 PM
Español:
En Venezuela, hay nuevas imágenes que no estaban antes pero solo se pueden ver activando "Imágenes Históricas" como en Tucupita, Delta Amacuro y Pantoño, Sucre.
English:
In Venezuela, there are new images that were not before but can only be viewed by selecting "Historical Pictures"as in Tucupita, Delta Amacuro and Pantoño, Sucre.
Posted by: wroman at January 29, 2011 9:00 AM
Images of Belgrade are updated recently.
And 3D Belgrade is great. Thanx Željko and others.
Posted by: Dragan Filipović at March 7, 2012 1:41 PM
Google earth Pro has gotten worse and worse since the early days of 5.0.
Posted by: cam balkon at May 18, 2012 8:38 AM
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Google should now do the right thing and upgrade their sat images for Belgrade! It's dragging the models down