Does Google Maps share 3D building data?

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Permalink Reply by Ola Jaensson on May 27, 2014 at 6:11am

Regarding the subject title: No, they don't share.

There could be a way to access the buildings by listening to the network traffic, extracting from the opengl pipeline or similar techniques, but none that seem to work with recent GE versions.

Google are getting rid of user modeled buildings in GE, but there are still a lot on the Warehouse that could perhaps be converted to RH.

Open Streetmaps is not really on the same level as GE yet: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM-3D.org

Good luck!

...and check other 3d cities as well, they might be easier targets.

/ola

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM-3D.org

Permalink Reply by Mathias Gmachl on May 29, 2014 at 3:30am

Thanks, Ola, really helpful. I have been using Elk and OpenStreetMaps a lot.