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Re:Live Blog: Google's 'next dimension' of Maps event by BHSPitMonkey on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @04:00PM (#4075871)
Today's announcement wasn't about that at all. It was about their use of new imagery gathered from planes (paid for and coordinated by Google) to generate detailed, textured, 3D models of cities.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBJ2Hu0NLw#t=4296s

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Re:Live Blog: Google's 'next dimension' of Maps event by mikeevans on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @04:20PM (#4075979)
I know, that's what I was saying. They weren't going to have a whole announcement for something that is so trivial. (This was also posted before the announcement).
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