Virtual Earth - North American downtowns in 3 dimensions

Mister F · #1 Posted **Dec 17, 2007, 12:08 AM**

With most of my Christmas shopping done and a blizzard dumping down snow all day, I haven't gone anywhere today. I started looking at the 3D images of downtowns on Microsoft Virtual Earth. I started looking at city after city and started saving screenshots. Now I have a bunch of aerials of North American downtowns, all to the same scale and similar angles. Of course I'm going to share them. I hope you all have widescreen monitors

mods - dunno what section this should be in since they're not photos, feel free to move it.

First, Canadian cities:

Toronto

Montreal

Calgary

Ottawa

Quebec City

Edmonton

Hamilton

They don't have 3D buildings done for Vancouver, as I'm sure some of you are wondering.

American cities:

New York midtown

New York downtown

Chicago

Los Angeles

San Francisco

Philadelphia

Miami

Atlanta

Houston

Minneapolis

Seattle

Dallas

There weren't any 3D buildings for any other countries. Feel free to add more cities, just keep them at the same scale (lower right on the pics) and similar angles.

kcexpress69 · #2 Posted **Dec 17, 2007, 12:40 AM**

This is cool!! Any of Kansas City, St. Louis, Cleveland, or Detroit?

LAsam · #3 Posted **Dec 17, 2007, 1:26 AM**

Cool compilation... thanks for sharing.

Boris · #4 Posted **Dec 17, 2007, 1:40 AM**

This is an awesome thread.

Too bad they don't have them for china and Dubai.

vanman · #5 Posted **Dec 17, 2007, 1:54 AM**

Quote:

They don't have 3D buildings done for Vancouver, as I'm sure some of you are wondering.

The lazy bastards.

#6 Posted **Dec 17, 2007, 2:02 AM**

Cool! Are those the only Canadian cities?

Presswood · #7 Posted **Dec 17, 2007, 2:52 AM**

wow anyone else had a shock when they saw the 1st new york pic ?.

Dac150 · #8 Posted **Dec 17, 2007, 3:08 AM**

Can you download this for free? It doesn't appear so on their main webpage.

Austin55 · #9 Posted **Dec 17, 2007, 3:22 AM**

yes,and the buildings actaully have textures to.

very nice snapshot,BTW

MobyLL · #10 Posted **Dec 17, 2007, 4:25 AM**

Very nice Mister F. Here's Denver...

Evergrey · #11 Posted **Dec 17, 2007, 4:43 AM**

Where's Winnipeg?

raggedy13 · #12 Posted **Dec 17, 2007, 5:17 AM**

Pretty cool stuff. Needless to say I'm quite disappointed Vancouver couldn't be amongst these.

Mister F · #13 Posted **Dec 17, 2007, 5:28 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Evergrey

Where's Winnipeg?

The same place as Vancouver. The only other Canadian city I found was Niagara Falls.

Quote:

Originally Posted by MobyLL

Very nice Mister F. Here's Denver...

Nice!

MobyLL · #14 Posted **Dec 17, 2007, 7:21 PM**

Here are some more (KC, St. Louis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh either had nothing or only a handful of buildings in 3D)

Boston

Portland

Detroit

Phoenix

Baltimore

Dac150 · #15 Posted **Dec 18, 2007, 12:18 AM**

How do you download this? Where do you go?

Capsule F · #16 Posted **Dec 18, 2007, 12:28 AM**

This program is excellent.

MobyLL · #17 Posted **Dec 18, 2007, 12:52 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dac150

How do you download this? Where do you go?

I downloaded it a long time ago... but try this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

And here is Milwaukee

Dac150 · #18 Posted **Dec 18, 2007, 2:00 AM**

Thank you. Can it be made full screen on a monitor?

MobyLL · #19 Posted **Dec 18, 2007, 3:00 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dac150

Thank you. Can it be made full screen on a monitor?

Sure... you can also turn-on aerials, zoomin, zoomout, change the tilt, etc. Here are a couple different shots of Manhattan:

Boris2k7 · #20 Posted **Dec 18, 2007, 5:04 AM**

Thanks for the topic Mister F

Another pic of Calgary with the textures on. I love having a 24" monitor... Too bad the model for the Calgary Tower is exceptionally shitty, especially when they did such a good job on the Saddledome and the Talisman Centre

And with a little bit of tweaking in Paint.net...