Microsoft is currently ahead in the battle to produce 3D city from models from the air see our post and movie on New York in Virtual Earth.
The current move is towards street level with Google's Street View continuing its capture programme and new kid on the block EveryScape launching soon.
We now have 'Earthmine' aiming to create a new kind of map:
It'll be interesting to see some of its output...
Earthmine - Street Based Mapping
Andy
CASA, UCL East
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