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Freefalling music video – ode to Google Earth

November 18, 2014

From October last year, Google stopped accepting user created 3D models into Google Earth. Instead, they have been rolling out automatically generated 3D imagery. Both the 3D ‘Earth View’ in Google Maps and the mobile version of Google Earth do not show the user created models – sticking to the automatically generated 3D mesh for some cities, and the 3D terrain (from various sources) for the rest of the earth’s surface.

Australian band Midnight Juggernaugts have recently released a music video created using Google Earth. In their words on the YouTube page:

The video is an ode to Google Earth, the band’s long-standing favourite computer program. As cartographic enthusiasts they’ve spent vast amounts of hours over the years excessively exploring its virtual environments. Last year they noticed its crowd sourced 3D modelling project, which allowed the public to recreate the world’s buildings in 3D form, had come to a close. Millions of these CG SketchUp models are now being replaced by auto-generated 3D mesh buildings through photogrammetry technologies.
To farewell these previous crowd sourced 3D creations, the band wished to have a final celebratory song and dance through some of their favourite sites across the virtual globe. A technological last rites before the new dawn.”

About Timothy Whitehead

Timothy has been using Google Earth since 2004 when it was still called Keyhole before it was renamed Google Earth in 2005 and has been a huge fan ever since. He is a programmer working for Red Wing Aerobatx and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

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  1. Vicky says

    April 20, 2015 at 11:31 pm

    Interesting and very cute video! Thanks for sharing this one!

  2. paslanmaz su deposu says

    August 26, 2015 at 4:09 am

    Thanks for all information

  3. Şarkı Sözleri says

    October 17, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    Güzel paylaşım devamını beklerim

  4. sprey poliuretan says

    February 2, 2016 at 1:51 pm

    paylaşım için tşk.



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