Looked at Sheffield in Google Earth recently?

[Phanerothyme 12]

Trees? Well that would show its outdated then.

That's right - no trees in Sheffield any more.

[Waldo 96]

Yep, noticed it about a week or so ago. Must have took employees at Google ages to build 3D models for every single building, tree, structure, in the UK!

 

Would make interesting reading or viewing, how they actually did it...

[Temuchin 13]

As much as I detest Google for its practices, they've certainly come up with some impressive stuff over the years: the search engine when it first came out, Google Earth, Streetview, and now this. Still don't like them as a company, though

[Berberis 10]

Try it! You may be surprised (Turn 3D buildings on).

 

This is awesome, I can see the amorphous blob I live in

[Phanerothyme 12]

As much as I detest Google for its practices, they've certainly come up with some impressive stuff over the years: the search engine when it first came out, Google Earth, Streetview, and now this. Still don't like them as a company, though

 

To be fair, Google didn't invent Google Earth, the CIA did. It used to be called Keyhole Earth Viewer.