Information technology and cartography: Google to launch a new project of 3D city maps

June 6, 2012 Google announced the launch of a new project to create 3D maps of cities. The first three-dimensional maps of several settlements of the U.S. will go to market in the fourth quarter of this year.

The company has demonstrated the possibility of a new format using the example of San Francisco, where it held a press conference. Thanks to video, made from an aircraft, the user gets an opportunity to observe the real picture, and scrolled it, moving in space. "We tried to create the illusion that you're just flying over the city, as if in your own helicopter," said sales manager Peter Birch.

By the end of the year, Google expects to receive a detailed survey of several cities with a total population of 300 million people. New 3D-maps will be part of the application Google Earth. The company also announced the upcoming version of the maps for mobile phones and computers on the platform Android, which can be used without Internet connection.