From Street Thought To 3D

Did yous know that Street View on Google Maps has hidden depth data. This hidden depth information has been used past times projects similar Urban Jungle to heighten Street View imagery as well as past times others to practise 3d indicate clouds of real-world locations.

Urban Jungle is a fantastic website that allows yous to sentiment Street View scenes enhanced amongst or then virtual jungle greenery. The resultant is possible because of this undocumented depth information stored inwards Street View. Urban Jungle is able to role that information to practise a depth map which tin hold upwardly used to plot geometry as well as sprites inwards the 3d infinite of the Street View panorama.


Callum Prentice's Street Cloud as well as Street Cloud Flow uses Google's hidden Street View depth library to practise 3d indicate clouds of existent locations. In these demos the depth maps intermission the Street View information upwardly into dots as well as recreate the scene inwards an interactive 3d scene.

Patricio Gonzales has done something similar inwards his Skylines III project. In this projection yous tin explore 3d indicate cloud scenes of the Ile de la Cite inwards Paris as well as the Queensboro Bridge inwards New York. Patricio has every bit good posted his Street View Depth Map scraper on GitHub.


Peter Pisljar has every bit good started creating 3d maps amongst Street View depth data, However Peter's maps every bit good role satellite imagery to furnish textures as well as altitude information to practise realistic terrains. 3d World Modeling amongst Three.js combines all this information to practise an impressively realistic interactive 3d map of a existent footing location.

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