Google Maps Enhancements
The king of Internet mapping programs keeps getting better. I’m not sure when they added this, but Google Maps now has a kind of 3D building view.
This is how New York looks at progressive levels of zoom:
The buildings also seem to be accurately portrayed. Consider this multi-level structure:
And the satellite view:
The angle is different, but pretty cool anyway.
I tried a few more cities and they were all partially covered: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago. Even the Queen City of Buffalo was covered. Of course, that probably only means that this has been out for a long time andI just now woke up from my shell.
Oh, and Google Maps also has a traffic overlay… cool if you have a co-pilot using a laptop during your commute but I’m not sure how else this would be useful:
