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#1: Google Earth Author: southern_land,

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:31 am
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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!

#2: Re: Google Earth Author: mooxe,

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:30 pm
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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?

#3: Re: Google Earth Author: southern_land,

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:33 pm
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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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#4: Re: Google Earth Author: mooxe,

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:30 am
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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.

#5: Re: Google Earth Author: southern_land,

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:22 am
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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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#6: Re: Google Earth Author: southern_land,

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:23 am
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and the other half

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#7: Re: Google Earth Author: southern_land,

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:24 am
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anyone interested in using these PM me. I can upload the file somewhere (85Mg)

#8: Re: Google Earth Author: ScnelleMeyer,

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 12:41 pm
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Hey SL - Check your Facebook messenger - I sent you a link with high quality aerial orthophotos - A lot better than GE!

#9: Re: Google Earth Author: Jatke,

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 11:37 am
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Cross-stitched CCstyle maps

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