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Disney World 3D Released

posted by lxnyce on Thursday June 05, @10:19AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the google's-got-mice dept.
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The Google Earth Blog reports that the long awaited Disney World 3D layer for Google Earth has been released. Visit their page for more information, videos and try it yourself. I gave it a try myself yesterday evening, and the texture are extremely slow to come in. Perhaps you will have better luck than I did.
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  • Nice

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    by SEWilco (1540) on Friday June 06, @11:06AM (#2878)
    Nice presentation. It's interesting to see some of the details they chose, such as a forest of trees which conceal more 3-D objects navigating within the forest. However, considering the viewpoint provided by Google Earth, they should also at least provide labels for some more areas. I think I recognized what is called "Main Street" but it's not labeled. Some nearby areas of the complex also need labels, such as what looks like a large support/maintenance cluster of buildings... Oh, wait, I'll look at it with the Wikipedia layer turned on and see what else has been labeled.
    • Re:Nice by daedlus (Score:1) Friday June 06, @12:00PM