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New Google Earth imagery/3D, Bing StreetView coming soon

November 20, 2009

A couple of quick links today:
Imagery update in Google Earth: Just two weeks since their last one, Google has pushed out another imagery update. It’s not a huge one, but it covers small parts of many countries.
New 3D imagery in Google Earth: Google has started using StreetView imagery in some cities to create lifelike facades [...]

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Bing Maps Imagery Update for July

August 4, 2009

Hot on the heels of Google’s latest imagery update, we have a huge imagery update from Bing Maps (via James Fee). This update includes 41TB of raw imagery, covering 189,000 sq. km., and about 12,000 sq. km. of Bird’s Eye imagery.
One of the neat things that Microsoft does with each release is post a “World [...]

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Some new 3D goodness in Google Earth

January 30, 2009

A couple of interesting 3D updates in the past few days.
First we have the Vancouver update. They added 1400 textured 3D buildings to the city and it looks great. According to the Google Earth Blog, they also expanded 3D coverage in New York City, Portland and Seattle.
Another post from the Google Earth Blog involves the [...]

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Amazing 3D recreation of Ancient Rome in Google Earth

November 12, 2008

Google is about to unveil a new layer for Google Earth that shows over 5700 3D buildings from the city of Rome, circa 320 AD. This is based at least in part from the model of the city we showed you last year from the University of Virginia. If nothing else, they’re both based off [...]

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Disney World 3D has finally arrived in Google Earth

June 4, 2008

It’s a few weeks later than we expected, but Disney World is now 3D in Google Earth — and it’s impressive! They’ve included the Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom and Disney Resorts.
There are actually two parts to this:

The normal 3D buildings layer will add all kinds of visual goodness, such as buildings, [...]

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Miami is now “version 2″ in Virtual Earth

June 3, 2008

About two months after the first four “version 2″ cities were released, Microsoft has just unveiled Miami 2.0. Like the other four cities, it features a massive increase in the number of buildings, along with a whole bunch of 3D trees. According to the Virtual Earth 3D blog, Miami now has 46,344 3D buildings (up [...]

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3D version of Disney World coming to Google Earth

May 17, 2008

According to the Google Earth Blog (via USA Today), there is a great new 3D version of Disney World coming to Google Earth. It’s due to come out as soon as next Tuesday (May 20).
It will include 3D models of items in Epcot Center, Animal Kingdom, Disney Hollywood Studios and 22 hotels and resorts. There [...]

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