Blender Earth Modeler Add-on | 3D Google Earth (City/Terrain) inside Blender

Does anyone know if SketchUp is working on something like this for us?

https://youtu.be/80GrFXFOayE

If anyone from the SketchUp team knows they wouldn’t be permitted to say. So then none of the rest of us would know either.

I was playing with the unreal engine verison of this last week. Really cool.
Google literally announced this new API (which is I a preview phase ) only a couple of weeks ago, so I doubt you’ll hear anything until the mechanics of how the tiles are paid for are finalised.

Unfortunately many of the same caveats as using google map data still apply - the current testing phase license for this doesn’t allow use of this commercially- which probably makes it an unattractive option to integrate into a professional software.

If you can get it into blender, you’ll certainly be able to get it out again.

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