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I used to be able to view 3D rendered buildings and landscapes on Google Maps and change the viewing angle, but now I’ve only got grainy aerial photos viewed from directly above.
Has something changed?
Still working for me.
The buttons have changed I think and you need to press the globe button to get the 3d option.
Bingo!
Thanks.
Does anyone know how they put these things together? It was easy to tell when it was obviously just flat satellite images stitched together but now, they've got the height and shape of every building, with an image on every side. How the hell do they do that?
As my kids say - "Just ask Google!"
Short version: they stitch together arial info they already have - specifically satellite view and other topographic information, with Streetview. So thinking of a building as a basic cube, satellite info gives them top view, topo info (with some clever maths from Streetview) gives height, and Streetview gives side views.
#stealth edit:
Should have added: stereoscopic aerial photography also helps fill in some of the side views
The computing power that must take is mind-boggling.
My colleague in Lagos now uses Google Maps to avoid the traffic jams. Poor old Matthias his quite elderly driver just can't understand how the boss seems to be able to find his way around the city. He starts to turn and you say: "Not here Matthias - go on to X road instead!" He looks puzzled and asks: "Ah ah! You want I go STRAIGHT.....?"
My colleague in Lagos now uses Google Maps to avoid the traffic jams.
Currently working for me too. I can see, using google maps that one of my work mates has taken about an hour to go 3.5km down the M56, out of a 16.5km traffic jam. So that's traffic data, distance measurement and user location all on one screen. Google maps is truly awesome.
As I hope the curry I'm shortly going to go and eat in Flint shall be, while I wait for the jam to clear.
Install the Google Maps software, it's pretty good. Let's you change the age of the mapping 🙂