earth-reverse-engineering VS GoogleEarthVR-saved-renamer

I see, that's useful information. Perhaps import lower resolution versions of the google earth model and textures instead? The model is already in multiple LODs. I used this one a few years ago: https://github.com/retroplasma/earth-reverse-engineering though I now see there's https://github.com/eliemichel/MapsModelsImporter

i've used retroplasma's exporter to get city sections into blender (fairly low resolution but probably good enough for a 3d print) and from there you could probably use a plugin to convert that to an STL.

I've seen a few people talk about this before, but the past hour of research has led me to believe it's actually possible: A driving simulator that uses satellite data let you take on real roads. Google Maps has been largely reverse engineered (Demo, Code) - the data just needs to be processed (barring some bugs, things under trees or bridges). I wouldn't try to keep the photorealism, there's simply not enough data, so some sort of cartoony simplifcation like Infinitown would be awesome. The idea sounds absolutely naive but I'm sure a strong team could do it.

Another way i could think of is being able to script random locations into "saved locations" in the google street view VR app, but the location itself is in the proprietary format, so not really editable. The closest I found someone to get to is being able to edit the name of the saved location: https://github.com/DavisNT/GoogleEarthVR-saved-renamer/blob/master/GEVR-SR/Program.cs