[stjo]

I work at a startup that uses similar technology to make large-scale 3D models, but using your own dataset https://www.one3d.ai. You can check a demo here https://app.one3d.ai/twins/9763/?invcode=7asheX17, but the surprising thing is that they have pretty good quality without close-up aerial photography. We need drones to take photos, but a doubt they used anything closer than a plane.

I wonder if Google's photogrammetry Kaggle competitions are related to this https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge...

[jss326]

The demo looks very good, great quality at street level. Is this just based off of pictures, or does it use LiDAR as well?

[stjo]

No LIDAR needed, just sharp photos from a consumer-grade drone.

[andybak]

I remember reading Google uses a combination of aerial and streetview with some clever algos to combine the two.