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Internet => Interesting Websites => Topic started by: Ronski on March 17, 2016, 10:07:49 AM
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My brother told me about this the other day, he was looking at Sidcup and said it was in 3D, I just yeah they've been doing that for some time, but this is on a whole new level and is nothing short of amazing! Even the tree's are 3D!
Sidcup https://goo.gl/maps/wwY9KhCu8xK2
London Eye. https://goo.gl/maps/emFwWatoqa22
Really needs doing on a computer, just go to google maps satellite view, then hold the shift key and left mouse button to tilt and rotate.
Closest thing I can relate it to is how Sketchup works when panning around a model.
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This type of 3D has been on Google Maps for quite a long time.
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Ah! Thank you for that - it explains something.
My daughter is looking at new houses in a different city and phoned me this morning with the details of one and I was looking at it on google maps. I couldn't understand quite what was happening with the rendering (which at times appeared blocky or blue). I said to her on the phone g.maps is doing something weird and I was zooming up and down the particular street noticing that things 'were different somehow' depending on angles. I guess I must have pushed my luck a bit too much though because eventually I caused firefox to crash.
Warning it can use quite a bit of RAM ... and the memory leakage/issue with firefox causes it to frequently crash. Works better in chrome.
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We have had 3D google earth maps in my area for 8 months it looks like a 3D playstation 2 game with badly rendered polygon overlay mapping.
But it's good fun when your enter flight simulation mode with controller and select SR22 enjoy your flight :)
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Street view looks different, but no houses rendered as 3D blocks at IV49 9BN. Not yet. Looking down on Broadford in Google Earth, looks the same, 2D very poor res.
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The earth's still flat here in Northamptonshire.
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It's still flat down here in sunny Broadstairs too.