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Some background on how Virtual Earth creates 3D buildings

March 31, 2008

The Virtual Earth 3D blog has a post today that explains in detail how they create each 3D city. From the article: Microsoft’s acquisition of Vexcel Corporation, a 20-year old provider of remote sensing solutions, provided the Virtual Earth team with a broad background in photogrammetry, geospatial data production, and digital elevation model (DEM) generation [...]

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Microsoft is pouring it on — 60 more cities are now in 3D

December 20, 2007

To go with yesterday’s 36 TB imagery update, Virtual Earth now has another 60 cities in 3D. Amazing! The list: CALIFORNIA * Chino (124 sq. mi.) * Corona (65.17 sq. mi.) * El Monte (129 sq. mi.) * Fontana (100 sq. mi.) * Fullerton (122 sq. mi.) * Ontario (99.43 sq. mi.) * Pasadena (108 [...]

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More updates to Virtual Earth

October 16, 2007

Microsoft has just released a new version of Live Search Maps (named Gemini), as well as revealed a few more places that were updated in the past few days. The new version has a lot of cool stuff: 1-Click Directions – Also known as “party maps”, this is a single permalink that you can send [...]

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A bunch of new 3D cities in Virtual Earth

September 24, 2007

Yesterday, Microsoft added 3D data to a bunch of cities. They include: Arizona Phoenix Tucson Tempe Mesa Avondale Gilbert Peoria Glendate Augusta, GA Denver, CO Nashville, TN Chicago, IL Fort Worth, TX Coral Springs, FL Edmonton (Canada) Chicago, in particular, is quite impressive. Enlarge the screenshot at the top, check out a great video of [...]

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3D Campus buildings are now in the default 3D layer

July 18, 2007

As reported by the Google Earth Blog, the winners of the “Build Your Campus in 3D” are now available in Google Earth. Check them out in Google Earth, or watch the video that gives a brief tour of each campus.

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Google’s “Build Your Campus in 3D” winners announced

July 11, 2007

As announced on the Google Lat Long blog, today Google revealed the winners of their “Build Your Campus in 3D Competition“. They are: University of Minnesota – Department of Architecture Purdue University – Departments of Computer Graphics Technology and Education Concordia University, Loyola Campus – Department of Civil Engineering Stanford University – Department of Architectural [...]

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Massive updates to Virtual Earth

July 4, 2007

Microsoft just announced a ton of new updates for Virtual Earth. This includes: Updated road/hybrid map styling for the entire world Hillshaded roads for the entire world 3Di/Boulder hi-res orthos for 44 cities in 10 states, along with a bit in Canada and some in France. New or expanded 3D models in 47 cities, along [...]

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Update to the Google Earth 3D Buildings layer

June 21, 2007

Google has just pushed out their June update to the 3D buildings layer. Some cities with updates include Chicago, Christchurch (New Zealand), Karachi, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Moscow. In addition, there is a big bug in this update. There is a building in western Turkey that looks like a normal house but is about 11 [...]

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Complete 3D model of Rome, circa 320 A.D.

June 14, 2007

This is both amazingly cool and horribly frustrating. The Institute for the Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia has built a complete 3D model of the city of Rome as it was in 320 A.D. “Rome Reborn”, as it’s called, is astoundingly sharp and consists of billions of data points. FTA: [...]

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Want to help model a city?

June 9, 2007

In an effort to get more cities modeled in 3D, Google has created a new category in the 3D Warehouse titled “Help Model a City“. They’re encouraging users such as yourself to go in there and help create some of these models. So far they have five cities listed — Ann Arbor, Michigan : Amherst, [...]

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