Comment by baybal2

9 years ago

Check Amap, they have coloured 3d maps of all global cities with photo textures.

http://www.navibiz.com.cn/e/NewsFocus/nf-123-02.html

Interesting.

For what it's worth: Google Earth (and Google Maps) have 3d buildings and vegetation etc now, too.

(But I wonder whether it's based on new data, or they just use machine learning to guess the 3d shapes from the 2d data they already had.)

  • in case of autonavi, their 3d maps are human modeled and textured just like a giant 3d game