[anigbrowl]

I'm sold, good find. I wonder waht the costs and hosting requirements are like? You'd think this would be a no-brainer for both municipalities and chambers of commerce. The imagery is great for consumers but I can see the 3d models being useful for everything from traffic simulations to real estate development. It's like Google Earth on crack.

http://www.c3technologies.com/en_demo.php for demos (plugin must be installed) The 3d is a little ropey when you zoom all the way in and set the view angle very flat. Things like cars and trees sort of rise out of the ground as if they were hills...and that sounds much worse than it is. I'm amazed. Now if you used these 3d heightmaps as correlation data for some 3d analysis of streetview images we'd be in James Bond territory.

Also http://www.c3technologies.com/en_documentation.php?id=1

[ankhmoop]

It looks great, but unfortunately, the plugin is Windows only (and I'd never install a random plugin anyway), and the Java-based demo won't work either since I just turned Java off (http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/CVE-2008-5353.2009...)

[delano]

It works in Safari 4 with Java off.

[ZeroGravitas]

Are you confusing the video with the live, interactive demo? You need Windows or Java for the latter, as far as I can tell.

[delano]

Indeed I am! I didn't realize there was an interactive demo. Thanks for clarifying.