Google announces auto-generated 3D models of cities for Google Maps

[Greenen72]

[QUOTE=teh pirate;36222693]Google wins. Just hope they patented this.[/QUOTE]

That's along the same lines as "I hope they remembered to pay their employees this month"

It's not something that you forget

[Electrocuter]

This will be fucking awesome together with the flight sim.

[QUOTE=rapperkid04;36225178]Is this already released or was it just announced?[/QUOTE]

Article says "in the coming weeks".

[Vladnag]

one day they'll make street view with these 3d buildings but you're a little man you can walk around as, that would be amazing

[MaxOfS2D]

[quote]while the Android version of Google Maps will get the ability to download maps for offline usage in more than 100 countries in the coming weeks.[/quote]

Wait, what? You were already able to cache maps for offline usage if you wanted to

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[Killuah]

That's the Google labs beta and it wipes the cache with every update of the app.

[MIPS]

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;36225862]Wait, what? You were already able to cache maps for offline usage if you wanted to

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Google Maps can do that? Cool. I wish it didn't crash on my G1.

[A big fat ass]

I remember someone else was doing this already with a couple of cities. I think it was Nokia.

[MaxOfS2D]

[QUOTE=Killuah;36227400]That's the Google labs beta and it wipes the cache with every update of the app.[/QUOTE]

Never wiped here *shrug

[MBB]

Nokia did this long before Google did.