Google Maps introduces 3d buildings
Just a quick note to point out that Google Maps has introduced a feature that shows buildings as 3d objects on the map.
Click here to see it in action on Google Maps.
Useful! But when did they do this? And why is it only in Cardiff?
George
George Rosier runs this blog. It's somewhere he can vent his spleen about web design, usability, SEO, and other such nonsense that will no doubt mean nothing in 5 years' time.
Nice feature, should help orientate people more when they’re looking for directions!
Exactly: there’s been so many times I’ve used Google Maps and thought “Ah that journey looks easy”, only to be made to drive through the legs of a model of T-Rex and past a scale replica of the Bismarck.*
* not actually true.
I guess they had the data to do it from Street View?