I love how Google Earth captures buildings at different angles sometimes

[Freek]

April 2014 (top-down view)


May 2015 (slanted view)



When I first saw the slanted angle, I thought like all of those buildings had been built in one year, but at a second glance you can see the shadows given off the buildings to the north-west. The second image reminds me of a city-building game lol

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[Zeblote]

You mean google earth isn't 3d everywhere? :O

[Maxx°]

me and my dad saw a google maps car going down one of our routes today
it was cool

[Refticus]

me and my dad saw a google maps car going down one of our routes today
it was cool

did you wave at it

[Maxx°]

did you wave at it

no

[SBG]

I love playing with this

[XR-7]

me and my dad saw a google maps car going down one of our routes today
it was cool

My dad saw a Google Maps car when he was driving home from work a few years ago. He followed it all over the place and then found himself once they added the photos.

[Oasis]

The 3D view from the depth modeling is getting really loving good.



I mean look at that, that's ASU's Tempe's campus almost completely "modeled". God I love the future.

[Headcrab Zombie]

It's the same angle, you can tell because the vertical roads are all slightly slanted towards each other at the top.
They just don't have the 3d buildings in one of them

[-Setro-]

that toyota building
mmm

[Freek]

The second image isn't modeled, that's how the image was taken.

[Headcrab Zombie]

The second image isn't modeled, that's how the image was taken.

If you go onto google maps and zoom in very closely, you can see what is clearly a low poly mesh, not a flat image. The individual triangles are very distinct.

[Freek]

If you go onto google maps and zoom in very closely, you can see what is clearly a low poly mesh, not a flat image. The individual triangles are very distinct.

I'm talking about the ones in the OP. The image was flat and no 3D models were on it. You could rotate the image and the buildings would still be slanted.

Here you can see I rotated the view in Google Earth.


Here's the same view with 3D buildings enabled. You can see the buildings slanted underneath, meaning the original image I posted was in fact a flat image taken at an angle giving a 3D perspective instead of modeling done on the buildings.