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Google Maps in 3D

by Jordan Running on January 6, 2006 at 11:50 AM

3D MapsI think it's only a matter of time before Google brings something more like Google Earth to web browsers, but in the meantime check out 3D Maps, a Japanese proof-of-concept that takes map images from Google Maps and uses SVG to transform them into a pseudo-3D tilted view. It only works with Firefox 1.5 and is pretty slow, but is cool nonetheless. If you read Japanese there's some technical information here, but for the rest of us the machine-translated version is pretty obtuse.

[Via Waxy.org]

Tags: 3d, cool, firefox, google, google maps, japan, maps, svg

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