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[atdt]

How are they generating the 3D models of various landmark buildings? It's hard to believe that they were generated from photos, since the lines look so clean. But there are too many of them to do by hand, no?

[vineyardmike → atdt]

The author of this post made other posts, including one discussing the building generation:

https://www.justinobeirne.com/new-apple-maps

It appears to be a combination of algorithmic work from satellites with manual generation mixed in.