What is the difference to the 3D view in Google Maps? edit: (honest question, dear downvoters...)
I would like an answer too - I genuinely don't understand what the difference is.
Google Earth Redesigned
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#92Hangs my current Chrome on Linux on a Core2Duo E8400 with older Intel onboard GPU - The old Google Earth Linux runs fine :(
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#93Looks like only few places in the US and some other cities elsewhere have the 3D view (that too not properly finished). Rest of them are still the old 2D. Wasn't most of this already there? I have seen their 3D view before, so besides performance improvement nothing much is new?
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#94Off-topic from the update, but sometime in the past 2 years the quality of their universal photogrammetry became jaw-dropping.
Absolutely! I recently tried the Google Earth VR on Vive where the photogrammetry really comes into play, and I was awed just like back when I was a kid and hooked up my computer the first time to a color CRT.
Except getting motion sick 5 minutes later.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you think that? There's been way more bugs in V8 over the years than the NaCl core sandbox.
I'm not sure why you're trying to say ? Two wrongs make a right ? For the record: I think that JS is a horrible idea too. What happened to the old rule of thumb that once you let someone else run their own code on your machine you should consider it compromised ?
People stopped following that rule sometime around the time the computer was invented.
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#96My house isn't even on there. :(
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#97I think it's a little funny and symptomatic of HN that we can't take a minute to fucking marvel at the fact that we've got something like this in the first place without going over the font or the whatever. Technology is amazing and moving rapidly, and if we can't take out five minutes to revel in an achievement like this, I don't know what the point is.
+1. This was just amazing to look at and play with.
When the homepage was 'flying' over the landscape, I was dreaming how cool that would look as the background for my TV.
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#98Looks like the Google Earth Flight Simulator[0] didn't make the cut. Many features are missing from the original desktop app and it's not immediately clear what this offers over using "Earth" within Google Maps. The "auto-rotate around the landmark" feature is also a pain for people who are used to maps being north-facing by default. [0] https://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/google-earth-eas...
> The "auto-rotate around the landmark" feature
I think of this as "Drone View". I keep waiting for the JDAM impact.
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#99The new Apple HQ building site looks impressive in 3D: https://earth.google.com/web/@37.33478572,-122.00939683,47.8... They didn't close the circle yet, to let trucks enter the midsection.
What's more interesting to me is the cranes are 3d modeled, that was not expected
Yes, I noticed that too. How is this done? There has to be some machine learning involved, accumulating all the aerial imagery and street view data and somehow generate a 3D model. This can't be all LIDAR data, can it?
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#100I think it's a little funny and symptomatic of HN that we can't take a minute to fucking marvel at the fact that we've got something like this in the first place without going over the font or the whatever. Technology is amazing and moving rapidly, and if we can't take out five minutes to revel in an achievement like this, I don't know what the point is.
I find myself often thinking this. Louis CK sums it up really well when he says "everything is amazing and nobody is happy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8LaT5Iiwo4