

In addition, please try and keep comments to a minimum just noting new areas covered with 3D or for messages to fellow 3D hunters. However, there are now so many comments that it is becoming difficult to scroll to the end, so we would like to ask all contributors to start using the comments in this post from today onwards. Until now, they have been using the comments in this post to report the locations of new finds. Also a big thank you to all the 3D hunters who find new 3D areas and let us know about them. A big thank you to all these contributors. Since then a number of other readers have been sending in KML outlines which we incorporate into the master KML file. A big thank you to him for his contributions. He has had to stop drawing outlines due to other commitments. Until recently the outlines were being drawn by GEB reader Anton Rudolfsson, who also came up with the idea of the timeline section. This has been made possible with the assistance of a number of dedicated GEB readers who have contributed to our map. For this we used this KML map that we maintain that shows the areas covered by 3D imagery. Update: Google now has video, if you'd rather not (or can't) install the app to try it yourself.Yesterday we had a look at the progress made by Google in releasing 3D imagery for Google Earth. Android users can head over Google Play to get the update today iOS users shouldn't fret, as they'll get the new maps soon. If that's too few places to visit, there's always the addition of guided tours. Besides San Francisco Bay, the full coverage extends to Boulder, Boston, Charlotte, Lawrence, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Portland, San Antonio, San Diego, Santa Cruz and Tampa in the US, with Rome being the lone international hotspot. Before you go racing to your hometown to see how it looks in 3D, be aware that just a handful of cities and regions exploit that dimension. As a refresher, the visuals are automatically created from 45-degree aerial imagery and can pick up 3D elements as subtle as trees. Here's a bit of a surprise that slipped under the radar during the Google I/O keynote: Google Earth for Android has been updated to 7.0 to take advantage of the new 3D map technology it unveiled at another special event just a few weeks ago.
