In our August month-end post we mentioned that Monument Valley, Arizona / Utah was now in 3D in Google Earth. Several other US parks also received 3D imagery at the same time. What we didn't realise … [Read more...]
Washington, D.C. now has Google Earth 3D
August 1, 2016
Google has recently pushed out a number of new 3D areas. Of special note is Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States of America. Google usually takes its time releasing capital cities … [Read more...]
What does it take to process 3D imagery?
June 23, 2016
Google has recently been pushing out 3D imagery of various Brazilian cities in preparation for the Olympics. The interesting part, however, is that the imagery isn't new. The imagery of Rio de … [Read more...]
3D imagery slow down?
May 24, 2016
As our regular readers know we maintain a map of areas that have Google's 3D imagery. We not only track current coverage but also have a timeline. Google has been adding to the area covered with 3D at … [Read more...]
Lexington Financial Center vanishes
March 4, 2016
Thank you to GEB reader Jackson for letting us know that the Lexington Financial Center, a tall building in Lexington, Kentucky, is completely absent in the recently released 3D imagery for the … [Read more...]
Ghostly planes in Google Earth 3D imagery
February 26, 2016
We recently came across this story about what at first sight appears to be a plane at the bottom of a lake. Today we are looking at how this 'ghosting' effect comes about. The two 'ghostly planes' … [Read more...]
Google Earth 3D imagery progress
February 22, 2016
Google continues to push out new 3D imagery on a regular basis. However, an increasingly large proportion of it is updates to areas that already had 3D imagery. The updated areas are generally better … [Read more...]
Maintaining our map of 3D areas
November 11, 2015
Yesterday we had a look at the progress made by Google in releasing 3D imagery for Google Earth. For this we used this KML map that we maintain that shows the areas covered by 3D imagery. This has … [Read more...]
Google Earth 3D Imagery progress report
November 10, 2015
[Update: It turns out the September figures are wrong (thank you Frank) due to errors in the KML not being handled well by the Area calculator we used. Here is the updated chart. ] It has been a … [Read more...]
Google’s 3D is not just for cities
October 27, 2015
Google has been rolling out 3D imagery for over three years. The focus has been almost entirely on centres of population. However, there are a few places where Google has mapped interesting … [Read more...]