Comments on: OS OpenSpace Preview http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/2007/12/15/os-openspace-preview/ free maps - free beer - free love Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:59:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jack DeNeut http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/2007/12/15/os-openspace-preview/comment-page-1/#comment-8743 Jack DeNeut Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:47:01 +0000 http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/?p=137#comment-8743 Interesting that Google still doesn't have building outlines for London. For my hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota, they have *3D* building info, at least for downtown. If you've never seen it, it's worth a look: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=hennepin+avenue,+minneapolis&sll=44.97698,-93.273132&sspn=0.006694,0.012918&ie=UTF8&ll=44.977952,-93.274773&spn=0.006694,0.012918&z=17&iwloc=addr&om=1 For my "adopted" hometown of Prague, Czech Republic, Google had its traditional "streets running through a grey desert" until about three weeks ago, when all of a sudden detailed building outlines showed up on Google Maps. I'd used local mapping sites up until now, because of their more detailed data set, but I'll probably switch to Google Maps at this point. Interesting that Google still doesn’t have building outlines for London. For my hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota, they have *3D* building info, at least for downtown. If you’ve never seen it, it’s worth a look:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=hennepin+avenue,+minneapolis&sll=44.97698,-93.273132&sspn=0.006694,0.012918&ie=UTF8&ll=44.977952,-93.274773&spn=0.006694,0.012918&z=17&iwloc=addr&om=1

For my “adopted” hometown of Prague, Czech Republic, Google had its traditional “streets running through a grey desert” until about three weeks ago, when all of a sudden detailed building outlines showed up on Google Maps. I’d used local mapping sites up until now, because of their more detailed data set, but I’ll probably switch to Google Maps at this point.

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