[pookha]

You can do this stuff with drones and open source tools. I used a cheap 100 dollar intel drone to take photos of my house and processed the pictures using (alice vision?) software that built the 3D mesh. My idea was to package something together for a home remodeling system that would let people measure and look at their houses with a 3D model but it just so happens that I live in the no-drone radius within Washington DC. Cesium also has a pretty nice 3D tiling photogrammetry service.

[_puk]

How long would it take the drone to reach Utrecht?!

I think the beauty of this is the fact that it's now easy to do this for anywhere that has coverage from Google tiles.

I'd love to see a side by side of achieving this with Unreal Vs open source tools though, would give a good indication of the gap between them (if any).

On a side note.. regulation came in quite quick for the no-drone areas in a lot of places, scuppered our farmer unmanned livestock checking startup idea!

[jeroenhd]

There's no way the drone would reach without breaking the law (or with you walking behind your drone the entire time).

Drone pictures are nice but most people aren't allowed to fly them in many places and even if they are, many densely packed cities have restrictions of their own.

[renewiltord]

These days you could probably get away with a handheld video and NeRF software if you wanted to add a missing place to this thing.

Very impressive work from OP! And cool suggestion from you.