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Title: Distorted Google Earth 3d Imagery
Post by: Gazza1 on July 13, 2014, 05:55:46 PM
I've been getting these issues for the last year or so.  I figured it was a bug on their end they would eventually fix, but it's been a while now.  I've tried disabling/enabling all options, clearing caches, reinstalling, etc.  It only does it when 3d Imagery is enabled.  I use OpenGL mode, but it also does it in Directx mode.

Hardware is Z77, 3770k, 280x, 32GB RAM, tried many different ATI drivers.  Right now using latest stable version.

Thoughts?

http://postimg.org/image/6xlxwzzzv/ (http://postimg.org/image/6xlxwzzzv/)


Title: Re: Distorted Google Earth 3d Imagery
Post by: minerpumpkin on July 14, 2014, 11:19:29 PM
Ummm, this looks pretty 'normal'. Google started to roll out true 3D imagery, not only hand-modeled buildings and sights. Those 3D images are being shot and processed automatically and thus have noise and are restricted by certain resolutions. It would be far too difficult and time consuming to reconstruct all those buildings by hand.


Title: Re: Distorted Google Earth 3d Imagery
Post by: Gazza1 on July 15, 2014, 01:28:17 AM
It's not normal because they used to be sharp and completely constructed.  And it's in many places all over the world, where they also used to look sharp and fully constructed.

You can't possibly say that looks normal, that's hilarious.

This is normal: http://postimg.org/image/suh27d20r/


Title: Re: Distorted Google Earth 3d Imagery
Post by: Remember remember the 5th of November on July 15, 2014, 02:04:06 AM
Real-life GTA right there.


Title: Re: Distorted Google Earth 3d Imagery
Post by: DjPxH on July 17, 2014, 12:23:06 AM
It's not normal because they used to be sharp and completely constructed.  And it's in many places all over the world, where they also used to look sharp and fully constructed.

You can't possibly say that looks normal, that's hilarious.

This is normal: http://postimg.org/image/suh27d20r/

Nah, I guess he's right. That picture is of a constructed, i.e. built in an editor, set of buildings. You can't possibly do that for every minor crappy place, so they scan and process those images automatically. And that technology has its limitations, yeah.


Title: Re: Distorted Google Earth 3d Imagery
Post by: Gazza1 on July 17, 2014, 02:05:18 AM
It's not normal because they used to be sharp and completely constructed.  And it's in many places all over the world, where they also used to look sharp and fully constructed.

You can't possibly say that looks normal, that's hilarious.

This is normal: http://postimg.org/image/suh27d20r/

Nah, I guess he's right. That picture is of a constructed, i.e. built in an editor, set of buildings. You can't possibly do that for every minor crappy place, so they scan and process those images automatically. And that technology has its limitations, yeah.

As I already said, the areas I am talking about used to be fully constructed, now they are not.  And South Beach (http://www.google.com/search?q=south+beach&num=50&client=firefox-a&hs=qEI&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=rcs&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=UTDHU4KWMI6KyATf9oHgCw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1638&bih=717&dpr=1.25") is anything but a minor crappy place.