Google Earth has been updated (now has 3D views, tours and more) - Sensationalist Headlines

Even if it's been a feature forever, I still find it really cool that I can just look at my hometown like this. [T]https://i.imgur.com/7DkP1sz.png[/T] Modeling the world, we're living in the future.

[QUOTE=DOG-GY;52124578]From using google maps/earth extensively for work, these are all features that've been there for years. My guess is they simply redid the UI/UX, added that voyager feature, and probably 3d-mapped more areas.[/QUOTE] Albany wasn't previously mapped fully in 3d which is why I thought it was new. (The big center pieces like the capital buildings and such were done but using sketchup or something)

I'm not that happy that they restricted google earth features. I always liked polygon select and overlays and other functionalities of Earth, but hey, browser capacity with Earth is still quite an achievement. [t]https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/6bn2JsASh.png[/t] [t]https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/6bjzLJXny.png[/t] 3D towns still look like they're melting though. But points for effort.

[QUOTE=Darth Ninja;52124558] Where I used to live looks like a bunch of circles. [t]http://i.imgur.com/9WcXqcl.jpg[/t] Feel free to count them.[/QUOTE] Reminds me of Cities Skylines.

Seriously thought I was in the Cities Skyline thread for a moment.

The chalk stacks near my hometown aren't 3d, but at least the sea is :v: [t]http://i.imgur.com/85CJ2cy.png[/t]

[url]https://vr.google.com/earth/[/url] This already existed for a couple of months if you wanted to visit these places in vr.

[IMG]https://i.gyazo.com/6795136af3fa00edfc8b58e6426d6fac.png[/IMG] Jesus christ how horrifying

[QUOTE=DOG-GY;52124257]First thing I did was go to Antarctica and spot the shitty pole seams. Still there![/QUOTE] I always like the submarine you used to be able to see on the maps before they updated it and blurred it out.

I remember there was 3D for major cities and towns at least a month or two ago. The most challenging part is detecting girders and bridges since they tend to break up the parallaxing effect needed in computer vision.

[QUOTE=Uberpro;52124272]Seems more like they're reintroducing features they've had for years, other than those info cards I guess.[/QUOTE] I think the big thing is the fact that you no longer have to download the Google Earth client, it's all in-browser now. I'll stick to my Google Earth Pro client personally, but I can see the appeal for this

This makes me more confused about the differences between Google Maps and Google Earth So Maps is more useful for directions while Earth is more about sightseeing? They should probably just merge the two together at this point, because their features almost completely overlap

Was looking at what replaced my old High School, saw the photo car in the reflection of another car. [img]http://puu.sh/vpy1H/6c37c3b302.png[/img] get rekt

[QUOTE=GHOST!!!!;52125683]Was looking at what replaced my old High School, saw the photo car in the reflection of another car. [img]http://puu.sh/vpy1H/6c37c3b302.png[/img] get rekt[/QUOTE] try harder [t]https://i.imgur.com/1H9e6pz.jpg[/t] [editline]19th April 2017[/editline] and the new earth app is missing a very important feature from the old earth program: [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/JZGpaC3.png[/IMG]

I was surprised to see my shit-hole town in 3D on Google earth VR

[QUOTE=Mastermind of42;52125505]The most challenging part is detecting girders and bridges since they tend to break up the parallaxing effect needed in computer vision.[/QUOTE] Welcome to hell: [t]http://i.imgur.com/xlCb5xU.png[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/MBd9Ww2.png[/t]

This is great in VR.

Area 51 doesnt get 3D when you zoom in. What are they hiding!?

[QUOTE=TheMrFailz;52126071]Welcome to hell: [t]http://i.imgur.com/xlCb5xU.png[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/MBd9Ww2.png[/t][/QUOTE] I thought this was what apple maps is infamous for.

[QUOTE=meppers;52125769]try harder [t]https://i.imgur.com/1H9e6pz.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Yeah but is this actually from Google Street view? It doesn't look like it.

This doesn't run at all in chrome, webGL instantly crashes once I try to zoom in at all. Kinda disappointing. Hardware acceleration is turned on and everything, computer can definitely handle it. Just won't work.

[QUOTE=Talvy;52126227]I thought this was what apple maps is infamous for.[/QUOTE] Pretty sure they both use a similar technique, which can't scan underneath things so bridges end up melting towards the ground.

Too bad the height isn't perfect on it, but it's still impressive. There's a road near where I live that goes upwards, but Google Earth shows it as like a slight hill instead of an almost diagonal slope. Still really impressive!

I doubt any of this will be useful for me as I mainly use Google Earth to trace abandoned railways. It can particularly interesting because some times you I'll trace one abandoned railway and find more abandoned railways that intersected with it.

Prague is pretty cool [img]http://i.imgur.com/7tQSX1N.png[/img]

It doesn't have Corfu mapped. 6/10.

my house is still flat 0/1

[QUOTE=Scot;52124297]I actually do load up the Google Earth desktop program every now and then to have a look around. With the Wikipedia layer enabled it's really absorbing.[/QUOTE] Sometimes I just zoom in to somewhere where I don't really expect anything to be, and look for the nearest structures. It can be interesting how far Humanity has it's reaches, I've found industrial complexes hundreds of miles from the nearest city in the most isolated reaches of Siberia. It's fun trying to guess what a place might be used for, sometimes it's obvious, if you see stacks of logs it's a logging camp, piles of rock and it's probably a mine, large tanks might mean it's a refinery. And then there's places like this. I found this place in the middle of the desert in Saudi Arabia, along a desert highway. [img]https://puu.sh/uXwSw.jpg[/img] This was a weird place, the roads look almost randomly generated, many loop back or just stop, and there was one long road that went out of town for a couple kilometers before turning around and going back only to end a few dozen meters from the start. There are normal looking buildings, but also plenty of what look like burned out buildings with no roofs, these appeared in small groupings in and around the town, and one set was even on a road. And finally, there were unusual shapes dotting the desert around the town. I googled the name, both in Arabic and Anglicized, but I got no hits. Close-ups of wall complexes and desert patterns: [t]https://puu.sh/uXwKw.jpg[/t][t]https://puu.sh/uXwXT.jpg[/t]

I wonder how they pick which cities have 3D. Some tiny village in Ukraine will have it, but Stockholm doesn't. [editline]20th April 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;52127343]Sometimes I just zoom in to somewhere where I don't really expect anything to be, and look for the nearest structures. It can be interesting how far Humanity has it's reaches, I've found industrial complexes hundreds of miles from the nearest city in the most isolated reaches of Siberia. It's fun trying to guess what a place might be used for, sometimes it's obvious, if you see stacks of logs it's a logging camp, piles of rock and it's probably a mine, large tanks might mean it's a refinery. And then there's places like this. I found this place in the middle of the desert in Saudi Arabia, along a desert highway. [IMG]https://puu.sh/uXwSw.jpg[/IMG] This was a weird place, the roads look almost randomly generated, many loop back or just stop, and there was one long road that went out of town for a couple kilometers before turning around and going back only to end a few dozen meters from the start. There are normal looking buildings, but also plenty of what look like burned out buildings with no roofs, these appeared in small groupings in and around the town, and one set was even on a road. And finally, there were unusual shapes dotting the desert around the town. I googled the name, both in Arabic and Anglicized, but I got no hits. Close-ups of wall complexes and desert patterns: [t]https://puu.sh/uXwKw.jpg[/t][t]https://puu.sh/uXwXT.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] I found a few very similar towns. My guess is they're meant to be housing developments and such,but have failed to find much demand, so only the streets have been built. The outskirts of Dubai look similar, though less random. Saudi Arabia seems to spend a ton on infrastructure and public works that don't really have much use yet. A bunch of the desert highways have big overpasses every few miles that don't actually connect to anything.

My house shows up pretty nicely in google earth even though the scans are a bit out of date (we removed the pine tree in front since this was taken) [img]http://i.imgur.com/s0K8t7S.jpg[/img]