3D Building on Google Maps

Google has always been trying to reduce the gap between Google Earth and Google Maps. This time it came in the form of 3D wireframe of buildings in some major cities. It’s more like a 2.5D because you can’t rotate or tilt the angle, you’ll have to stick to one angle and view, but the shaded buildings with projections will give you a rough idea of the actual shape and height.


Frank Taylor from Google Earth Blog says: “I believe these buildings are directly coming from those old “gray 3D buildings” Google has had in Google Earth since it was released back in June 2005. Now that I think about it, I’m kind of surprised Google didn’t implement this 2.5D version of the buildings in Google Maps sooner”

This new feature is available across 35 different cities across United States and Tokyo. I think the new feature is a great addition to existing Google Maps, but there should have been an option to switch back to the same old layout.

This post was published by on April 13, 2007

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  • http://everydayspace.blogspot.com Linu

    hope that google will come up with more ideas…

  • http://www.technospot.net/blogs/ Ashish Mohta

    This will make it easy for modern terrorist to find everything. I am biased on this

  • http://www.avirtualexit.com Gili

    This is getting better and better. Thanks for pointing it out.