Google Maps, Earth take on full 3D imagery

Re:Google Maps, Earth take on full 3D imagery by bonafidehan on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @08:33PM (#4076961)

> - 3d maps has been done like this already (by bing and others), though this looks a better resolution.

Bing appears to be using a non-scalable approach for Bird's Eye view. E.g., Seattle downtown contains a few 3d buildings in a very confined area. It might even be manually modeled.

What Google has announced is impressive because it is automated and scalable. Small demos are great and all (e.g. C3) but qualitatively different from getting something like this deployed into the real world.

Disclaimer: I work at Google.

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Re:Google Maps, Earth take on full 3D imagery by erjiang on Thursday June 07, 2012 @12:32AM (#4077626)

C3 is a "small demo"? C3's 3D maps have been deployed and are publicly usable and cover at least 25 metropolitan areas. Google may be catching up fast, but there is nothing shown in the video that C3 haven't done already.

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Re:Google Maps, Earth take on full 3D imagery by culturestate on Thursday June 07, 2012 @01:11AM (#4077705)

Plus, let's not forget that Apple bought C3, so I wouldn't be surprised to see them roll this out at an even larger scale next week.

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Re:Google Maps, Earth take on full 3D imagery by bonafidehan on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @04:07PM (#4138862)

Sorry, I was not aware that C3 had been at that stage. Kudos for C3.

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Re:Google Maps, Earth take on full 3D imagery by twelvechairs on Friday June 08, 2012 @03:50PM (#4085875)

Sorry. Clearly I remembered that wrong. I was thinking of yell.co.uk in the uk. Not sure why I wrote bing.

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