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Google Earth now has detailed facades from Street View (select cities only)
By Ken Goulding posted on Fri, 2009-11-20 17:12 , 355 reads, 1 commentGoogle has used imagery from Street View to add high-res facades to buildings in five California cities: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Franciso, Berkeley and Stockton. This kind of facade mapping works best for solid street walls without much articulation. The mapping is not always perfect, but the results are still impressive (and provide a good sense of the quality of the urban fabric).
You can browse these cities in Google Earth or check out the video below:
Note that some of the buildings you'll see when browsing using Google Earth are from the 3D Warehouse (i.e. constructed manually using SketchUp). You can tell which are 3D Warehouse buildings because they will highlight in blue when you mouse-over them.
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Update: Portland, Austin, Chicago and Philadelphia have now been added to the list.
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