earth-reverse-engineering VS MapsModelsImporter

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.

There was a lot of hacks to get this working, this is the best place I've found that collects all the info about how to repro: https://github.com/eliemichel/MapsModelsImporter/issues/279

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

For 3D data I use RenderDoc to pull the model from google maps, then import it into blender with this plugin (tutorial). This method doesn't seem like it's easy to automate, but hopefully it'll be a good starting point for the 3D portion of your project.

I'm trying to import from the 3d google maps function to blender; I found this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_XsmoZJmG8&ab_channel=Nicko16 using Renderdoc and mapsmodelimporter https://github.com/eliemichel/MapsModelsImporter/releases.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/gaming/overview\_musk https://github.com/eliemichel/MapsModelsImporter