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New York City gets lifelike facades

April 13, 2010

Last year we told you about a variety of cities that got detailed facades, after Google used their StreetView imagery and mapped it onto the sides of the buildings. Now they’ve added the detailed facades to New York City and they look great!

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They’re not saying how much of the city has gotten the treatment, but it seems to be a massive area. While the coverage is a bit spotty at times, they seem to have covered virtually all of Manhattan. You can read more about it on the Google LatLong blog or watch the video below:

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  1. Kaczor says

    April 13, 2010 at 1:43 pm

    Maybe you will be interested. DigitalGlobe published satellite photo of the plane crash site near Smolensk airfield where Polish president Lech Kaczynski and may others died on Saturday.
    Here is kml:
    http://encodable.com/cgi-bin/filechucker.cgi?action=landing&path=/&file=smolensk.kmz

  2. Munden says

    April 13, 2010 at 4:15 pm

    It’s actually really easy to see where the images come from. They’re from Street View. You can see the same folks standing/walking in the Street View images that you see in the building textures.

  3. middle-island says

    April 14, 2010 at 7:09 pm

    These facades for NYC seem to fit the buildings better than the earlier ones for Los Angeles. I really don’t see as much distortion in image size — as in: those images that seem to overshoot the tops of buildings by several feet, or so-called “chunks of sky” as part of the facades. Color confomity seems to have improved as well, as the street facade seems to merge more seamlessly with the auto-generated ones further up a building.



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