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southern_land

Rep: 155.2
votes: 14


PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:31 am Post subject: Google Earth Reply with quote

Has anyone checked out Google earth recently?  It literally blows my mind.  Three weeks after my old computer died taking maps for several proposed mods with it i find myself in COVID 19 lockdown for a proposed 4 weeks and am getting bored.  So I've started negotiating a new mod.  With the loss of several gigs of textures, maps images and so on I thought I'd start again from scratch.  Downloaded the new version of Google Earth to the new computer and started helping myself to imagery.

I see that many European cities have been 3-Derized.  Not only has each and every building been 3d rendered but if you zoom in whole cityscapes have been rendered in 3D.

Mind
fucking
blown.      

I can't even consider the computer power that drives this free product let alone think of any way that they've created this.

I'm reminded of a quote by the late Aurther C. Clarke "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."   We're there!
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mooxe

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:30 pm Post subject: Re: Google Earth Reply with quote

I use either Google Maps, Earth or Streetview pretty much every week now as part of my job and for internet rabbit holes I go down. 3D views has been around for quite awhile, maybe over 10 years?
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southern_land

Rep: 155.2
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:33 pm Post subject: Re: Google Earth Reply with quote

mooxe wrote (View Post):
I use either Google Maps, Earth or Streetview pretty much every week now as part of my job and for internet rabbit holes I go down. 3D views has been around for quite awhile, maybe over 10 years?


Ok odd, I had strictly photographic images on the old version/old computer

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mooxe

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:30 am Post subject: Re: Google Earth Reply with quote

Yeah so some places I used to browse did not have 3D for years. I think they did the dense and highly populated areas first, like NYC, and branched out to smaller less populated areas afterwards.
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southern_land

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:22 am Post subject: Re: Google Earth Reply with quote

So we're in nation-wide lock down

I've been pilfering images off Google Earth for map making.

Made one huge .psd that I can magic wand buildings off while mapping



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southern_land

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:23 am Post subject: Re: Google Earth Reply with quote

and the other half


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southern_land

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:24 am Post subject: Re: Google Earth Reply with quote

anyone interested in using these PM me.   I can upload the file somewhere (85Mg)
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ScnelleMeyer

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 12:41 pm Post subject: Re: Google Earth Reply with quote

Hey SL - Check your Facebook messenger - I sent you a link with high quality aerial orthophotos - A lot better than GE!
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Jatke

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 11:37 am Post subject: Re: Google Earth Reply with quote

Cross-stitched CCstyle maps
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