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The new Apple HQ building site looks impressive in 3D: https://earth.google.com/web/@37.33478572,-122.00939683,47.8...

They didn't close the circle yet, to let trucks enter the midsection.

Universally useful link:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B020'05.2%22N+122%C2...

What's more interesting to me is the cranes are 3d modeled, that was not expected

Yes, I noticed that too. How is this done? There has to be some machine learning involved, accumulating all the aerial imagery and street view data and somehow generate a 3D model. This can't be all LIDAR data, can it?

I think it's just Stereophotogrammetry (regular pictures from different angles), I doubt LIDAR and ML is used. It's at least not required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry#Stereophotogram...

Have you not heard? Machine learning is used for everything today, and if it was not it definitely should been.

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