Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Building Maker in 8 more cities and 25 new languages

Today, we released two new international and six US cities for Google Building Maker. We now have high-resolution, multi-angle aerial imagery available for over 75 cities -- quickly modeling buildings for context or Google Earth just keeps getting easier.

New cities (in blue): Seville, Spain; Berlin, Germany; Jacksonville, FL; St. Petersburg, FL; Clearwater, FL; Raleigh, NC; Memphis, TN; Houston, TX


There’s even more in store for our international users with this release! We’ve added support for more languages, so now your favorite online geo-modeling tool is available in a total of 39 languages.

New languages:

Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese (Traditional)
Chinese (Simplified)
Croatian
English (United Kingdom)
Filipino
Greek
Hindi
Hungarian
Indonesian
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Portuguese (Brazil)
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish (Latin America)
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese

Posted by Jelena Oertel, Google Building Maker Team
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2010 at 4:08 AM

    Nice update !

    Unfortunally my computer doesn't support the API. Just sad :-(

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2010 at 5:31 AM

    It's very said, especially as I don't see a reason why BM is not cross-platform compatible.

    My suggestion: allow us to use BM in the internal browser of the Google Earth application instead of the GE plugin in the browser.

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  3. UnknownFebruary 26, 2010 at 12:13 AM

    Houston, yay!

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