![]() Clearly the plane must have flown by more than once to get all the sides. You'll notice the that in each image, one side of the clock tower is a couple of hours apart temporally from the other side. ![]() Here's an image of the clock tower at my university in the Maps app: ![]() The advantage is that the skin quality is often much better. That's why it gets a little wobbly when you zoom in. How does it work? It involves taking pictures at a whole range of different angles to the ground from a plane then using computer vision software figure out depth from different images of the same object just like our own eyes do. C3′s mapping technology was originally intended to help missiles home in on targets but was then used by Nokia's map app Ovi, before Apple bought the company. Apple's Maps on the other hand are built automatically.īack in late 2011, Apple bought up a Swedish 3D mapping company called C3 Technologies that then disappeared off the radar. Sorry, but I'm gonna have to side with Google on this one on aesthetics! 3D models in Google Earth are often crowdsourced and built and skinned my hand using the idiot-proof modeling tool Google Sketchup. ![]() Not too shabby! Here's the same shot in Google Earth for comparison: Its unique selling point is 3D flyover maps. One other such feature is the new Maps app. With the release of OS X Mavericks came a bunch of new features like full screen support on multiple monitors (about time, Apple!).
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