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Content Types: 3D Data
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Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, and KML to put a virtual world at the fingertips of millions of users around the world. You can help users discover your 3D buildings by sharing them with Google.
- Give potential visitors a virtual tour of your city or town
- Create and publish a model of your business, restaurant, hotel, or school
- Showcase a 3D rendering of your favorite tourist spot
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Create and publish 3D building models
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Use the 3D Warehouse to search, share and store your models to the Google 3D Warehouse and make them visible in Google Earth.
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If your organization has developed a 3D model representing the buildings in your community, or if you've collected the geospatial data necessary for producing a 3D model, you can produce and share 3D models through Google Earth. Learn how others have used 3D models as a tool for planning and economic development or to foster tourism and simplify navigation. Check out Google's Cities in 3D Program.
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Use SketchUp to create 3D models easily and place them in Google Earth.
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Transit Partner Program: Learn how to include your public transit agency's information on Google Maps to make it easy for public transportation novices and seasoned commuters alike to plan a public transit trip.
Imagery / Terrain: Whether for a Google Maps for Mobile user trying to navigate to a tourist attraction in your community or a faraway Google Earth user considering business site locations in your commercial district, you can offer Google users a sharper aerial view of your community's landscapes and built environment by providing high-resolution aerial imagery and terrain data.
Basemaps / Vector: Ensure that Google Maps, Google Earth and other Google services are based on an accurate representation of your jurisdiction's boundaries and roads, placenames and address points as well as specific map elements like trails and parcels. Tell us about the basemap data you would like to share at gisdata@google.com.
Point of Interest: Provide the name and descriptive information about useful or interesting points of interest--such as business listings, historic sites, landmarks, parks, schools, water bodies and more--to enrich the representation of your community on Google's services. Learn how to provide Google Aggregated Business Information. Or, if you have POI data to provide along with other basemap data, tell us what you would like to share at gisdata@google.com.
KML: Use KML to publish geographic data. KML enables you to display points, lines, images, polygons and models in both Google Maps and Google Earth. Your KML files can be shared on your website either as individual, downloadable files or visualized using the Earth API.
KML Gallery: Publish your interesting KML files in the Google Earth KML Gallery on earth.google.com. The gallery contains examples of KMLs created by government agencies, community groups and users like you.
Google Maps API: Empower your website visitors to browse location-based information using Google Maps. Adding the power Google Maps to your website and combining it with your data is easy using the Google Maps API.
MyMaps: MyMaps provides public sector organizations an easy way to quickly display time-sensitive geographic information to the public. And members of your community can easily interact with and visualize this information in the familiar Google Maps interface.
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