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Google Maps Now Displaying Buildings in 3D

In some major metro areas, Google Maps has quietly begun displaying 3D building wireframes, visible when you’ve zoomed into the more close-up street level views. Here’s the Empire State Building:

3D Google Map of Empire State Building
[Google 3D Map of Empire State Building]

The 3D building shapes are apparently adopted from Google Earth, indicating further possible convergence may be on the horizon between the related Google projects.

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