While in Street View, you can toggle to 3D view, which gives you a ground level view with 3D graphics buildings and now, 3D trees, too. “In Google Earth, while we and our users have been busy ...

Google has already been doing a bit of indoor surveying through partnerships with individual 360 photographers, but this partnership opens Street View up to a much larger library of content.

Earth view brings depth to Google's mapping service. It needs a browser plug-in for now some day we'll be cruising in 3D in Google's virtual world.

At a press event in San Francisco this morning, Google announced that it will soon feature far better 3D maps in Google Earth. The company also announced that Google Maps for mobile will soon ...

The Google 3D Warehouse has recently added a new feature. If you are viewing a 3D model of a building where Street View pictures are available, you get a “tab” at the top which shows the ...

Postscript: The Next Web has a screenshot showing a 3D view in Google Street View, so apparently that’s coming. I’ve not been able to replicate this, myself — to get the small “3D man ...

On April Fools day, Google Maps announced street views in 3D. Basically, when you went to Google Maps, activated the street view version, you would get a Street Views 3D man that looked like the ...

Those not content with a getting a 2D top-down or 360-degree street level view of a planned route using Google Maps can now enjoy a virtual flight over the route thanks to Google adding a new ...

Google has already started collecting data using next generation Street View imaging tools. Many people have taken photos of the new camera rig on some Google Street View cars, but no details on ...

Google Maps now offers aerial 3D views of nearly 100 landmarks, including Big Ben and the Empire State Building.

The Google Maps team is now slimming down the Street View Trekker backpack used for capturing 3D imagery on the go.

The problem with Google Street View and Maps is that with rare exceptions, its data is entirely two dimensional. Satellites look down, after all, while Street View has captured only a very rough ...