i also have a GE question - how do you save the 3d models of LA, NYC, etc?

i heard the models are sketch up models.......

i was working on a model of detroit and they were trying to get me to upload onto their server...haha.... i was trying to sell it to them...google has a shit load of cash bty...... why would i give something to them....


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yeah - they are sketchup models... the import 3d model option is easy to find... but i have no clue how to export...

grid, someone posted this here a while ago, might interest you

http://ogle.eyebeamresearch.org/

has anybody seen the windows live alternative to GE?
...it's got also 3D pictures which you can rotate by clicking the north axes, like here

I had this problem a while ago. Maybe you should look into some real GIS software like FWTools? Needless to say, it's much more complicated than Google Earth, and you need to be able to find OGR files of the cities. I found some nice 600Mb datasets of european urban morphological zones at European Environment Agency but perhaps you're looking for other places?

a-f, i tried to look up those datasets but failed miserably, could you point me where i should look? I'm trying to get a decent map of Paris.

I found it out already myself. For anybody interested:

http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/metadetails.asp?id=995

it's a map of european urban zones, so not on neighbourhood level as i was hoping. More detailed maps (1:20 000) can be found on the following website:

http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/