The first big announcement was related to the display of 3D buildings in Google Earth. Google is using airplanes along with a Google-designed system to photograph cities and make a 3D map of ...

Showing 3D nuclear explosions in Google Earth. July 29, 2013. Google Earth/Maps has been used to show the location of nuclear bombs and map out nuclear disaster potential for a while now.

Google is keeping the string of Maps launches going -- it's just rolling out very, very detailed 3D maps for technology like Google Earth, using a "new process" to get extra depth. In some areas ...

Apple Maps takes iOS from trailing to leading in 3D. At Apple's introduction of iOS 6 last fall, iOS 5 Maps had been serving up bitmapped tiles from Google, which supplied only a flat, 2D ...

At a press event in San Francisco this morning, Google announced that it will soon feature far better 3D maps in Google Earth. The company also announced that Google Maps for mobile will soon ...

A side-by-side comparison of Google's newly-refreshed Google Earth for iOS appears to yield inferior results when compared to the beta version of Apple's upcoming iOS 6 Maps app.

“Google Earth utilizes broadband streaming technology and 3D graphics, much like a videogame, enabling users to interactively explore the world– either their own neighborhood or the far ...

When you open Google Maps on your desktop computer and zoom all the way out, the world now appears as a 3D globe rather than the usual flat two-dimensional map.

Google has announced plans to bring 3D cityscapes to Google Earth, and map more corners of the planet through its new team of "Street View Trekkers". The US search giant has included textured 3D ...

Vricon offers a new way to map the world. ... Beyond Google Earth, ... Vricon uses automated algorithm to process DigitalGlobe’s massive archive of maps into highly accurate, data rich 3D models ...

Google Maps and Google Earth now offer detailed 3D imagery of London July 17, 2014 - 11:37 am London is the latest city to be updated with 3D buildings and terrain in Google’s popular mapping ...