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Perspective imagery in GMaps API

Franta H. [PersonRank 6]

Tuesday, December 8, 2009
14 years ago2,819 views

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/12/changing-your-perspective.html

Excerpt from the blog post:
"Starting today, developers will have access through the Google Maps API to high-resolution overhead imagery that is presented in a new aerial perspective. This is currently available in 2 spots in California: San Jose and San Diego. This new perspective gives users the ability to tilt their view of the world. In addition to seeing hotel rooftops like in our current "satellite" view, users can now see both the rooftop and sides of the hotel at an angle. In fact, users can rotate around all the sides of a hotel to get 4 different views from back to front."

I am curious when will be the new imagery available in GMaps and how will the interface look.

mbegin [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Cool, so it's like Microsoft's Bird's Eye View on their maps.

mbegin [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Bird's Eye View is better quality though.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

There are already 67 cities covered by Google' Bird's Eye View in "Google 3D Building maker". Why did they pick only 2 cities here?

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