Any way to get high quality city building models besides the MapsModelImporter addon?

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  • MapsSDK-Unity

    Discontinued This repository contains samples, documentation, and supporting scripts for Maps SDK, a Microsoft Garage project.

  • The addon works but its fundamentally flawed since the data it gets is from google maps with LOD, so anything that isn't directly next to the camera is very bad quality. The only way I can see to get around it is to make a custom application that doesn't use the LOD system and only gets the high quality models and textures but I haven't been able to find any that does that. It isn't impossible to create and the code is probably written in javascript so definitely can be done though likely time consuming. The blender gis addon does have osm buildings but they aren't the right shape and many are missing and they don't have textures. I found something that should be nearly identical to Microsoft flight simulator https://github.com/microsoft/MapsSDK-Unity but it doesn't seem like it exports 3d models easily.

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