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The first 3D buildings in Google Earth were created using 3D modeling applications such as SketchUp and, beginning in 2009, Building Maker, and were uploaded to Google Earth via the 3D Warehouse. In June 2012, Google announced that it would be replacing user-generated 3D buildings with an auto-generated 3D mesh. [26]
Mar 17, 2009 · The Google Earth 3D Buildings Layer. March 17, 2009. This is an overview of the 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth as it currently exists with Google Earth 5. The 3D Buildings layer has evolved a ...
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This is a list of cities and other locations covered by auto-generated 3D imagery in Google Earth. In 2012, Google began incorporating 3D imagery into the mobile and desktop versions of Google Earth, with coverage of 21 cities in four countries released that year. By March 2015, 3D imagery covering more than 300,000 km² was available and by early 2016 had been expanded to hundreds of cities in over 40 countries, including every U.S. state and encompassing every continent except Antarctica.
In the listing below, each entry refers to a single contiguous area within the given country or subdivision that is entirely covered by 3D imagery. These areas may include numerous smaller settlements and neighboring areas, in addition to the principal location(s) indicated.
CanadaMexicoPuerto Rico•Aguadilla •Arecibo •Mayagüez •Ponce •San JuanThe BahamasUnited StatesArgentina
•Buenos Aires •La Plata •Mar del Plata •Rosario •Salta •San Juan •San Martín / San Isidro / San Miguel •San Miguel de Tucumán •Santa Fe
Brazil
•Belem •Belo Horizonte •Brasília •Cuiabá •Curitiba •Florianópolis •Fortaleza •Goiânia •João Pessoa •Manaus (Arena da Amazônia) •Natal •Porto Alegre •Recife / Olinda •Recife (Arena Pernambuco) •Rio de Janeiro •Salvador •Santos / São Vicente / Guarujá •São Paulo •Vitória / Vila Velha
Chile
•Concepción •Santiago •Temuco
Belgium
•Antwerp •Braine l'Alleud / Waterloo •Bruges •Brussels •Charleroi •Ghent •La Louvière •Leuven •Liège •Mons •Mouscron •Ostend / Blankenberge / De Panne •Verviers
Bulgaria
•Blagoevgrad •Burgas •Dobrich •Haskovo •Montana •Pleven •Plovdiv •Ruse •Shumen •Sliven •Sofia / Pernik •Stara Zagora •Varna •Yambol
Croatia
•Rijeka •Slavonski Brod •Osijek •Pula •Split •Zagreb •Zadar
Macau
•Macau Penisula •Taipa •Coloane
Hong Kong
•Hong Kong Island •Kowloon Peninsula: All •New Territories: Sha Tin/Tai Po / Fanling to the Frontier Closed Area
Japan
•Aomori •Fukuoka (east) •Hamamatsu •Hiroshima •Kanazawa •Kitakyushu / Shimonoseki •Kumamoto •Maebashi Mito •Nagoya / Toyota •Niigata •Okayama / Kurashiki •Osaka / Kyoto / Kobe / Himeji •Sapporo •Shizuoka •Tokyo / Yokohama / Chiba •Yokkaichi •Yuki / Jōsō
South Africa
•Bloemfontein •Cape Town •Durban •East London •Johannesburg •Newcastle •Port Elizabeth / Uitenhage •Pretoria •Rustenburg
Tunisia
•Sfax •Tunis •La Marsa •Ariana •La Goletta
Australia
•Adelaide •Brisbane •Canberra •Gold Coast/Tweed •Melbourne •Newcastle •Perth •Queanbeyan •Rottnest Island •Sydney (Central+South) •Mackay •Townsville •Rockhampton •Hobart •Launceston •Geelong •Shepparton •Wagga Wagga •Wollongong •Albury •West Wodonga •Mildura •Cessnock •Noosa Heads •Maryborough •Hervey Bay •Bundaberg •Double Island •Darwin •Hawkesbury Area (Windsor, Richmond) •Toowoomba •Cairns •Coffs Harbour •Sunshine Coast •Bendigo •Maitland
New Zealand
•Auckland •Christchurch •Wellington •Hamilton •Tauranga •Nelson •Queenstown •Upper hutt •Lower hutt •Porirua
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•KML file of 3D imagery locations and boundaries
Google Earth’s incredible 3D imagery, explained. Apr 18, 2017. 1 min read. N. Natalie Dennis (a.k.a. Nat) Google Creative Lab. Listen to article. Google Earth is an amazing tool that lets ordinary humans—sans wings or jetpack—zoom around the world. And, as you might know if you’ve checked out the new Google Earth, the 3D imagery looks ...
Mar 29, 2016 · “Google Earth started out using gray blocky buildings, These come from GIS data that’s available to anyone from the government.The next iteration, Which Was used to replace the gray buildings, were hand made with 3D modeling tools like Sketchup, and Those Which were good enough were incorporated into our date.
Jan 12, 2024 · The 3D buildings were created using 3D modeling applications such as SketchUp and Building Maker, and they were uploaded to Google Earth via the 3D Warehouse. However, in June 2012, Google announced that they would be replacing user-generated 3D buildings with an auto-generated 3D mesh.
