Tuesday, June 09, 2009

New York in Google Maps & Google Earth

Virtual Tour of New York City
Virtual Tour of New York City is a nice mashup of Google Maps and the Google Earth plugin. Users of the application are able to navigate around the 3D view in Google Earth using a custom made 'eye' tool in Google Maps. The tool lets you rotate your view in the Google Earth plugin and zoom in on individual 3D buildings.

This screencast gives a quick overview of how the 'eye' navigation tool works:



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