Belgian monuments get a 3D view in Google Maps


Touring out of your lazy chair? With a brand new operate in Google Maps now you can go searching at some monuments in Brussels and Bruges.

About 4 months in the past revealed Google one thing new for Maps: Immersive View. With such an immersive view, it’s attainable to digitally go to a spot and go searching as if you happen to had been there your self. Initially, the operate was solely obtainable for monuments in main world cities comparable to London, Tokyo, Los Angeles and New York. Bruges and Brussels can now additionally depend themselves in that record.

Immersive View now additionally works for quite a few locations in Belgium. Google added greater than 500 monuments worldwide to Immersive View, together with some monuments in Belgium. These monuments are:

  • The Belfry (Bruges)
  • The Church of Our Woman (Bruges)
  • Saint Salvator’s Cathedral (Bruges)
  • Manneken Pis (Brussels)
  • The Atomium (Brussels)
  • Saint Michael and Saint Gudula Cathedral (Brussels)
  • Metropolis Corridor of Brussels
  • Justice Palace (Brussels)

Because of Immersive View, it’s attainable to go to these locations with out having to go away your seat. How precisely does that work? An AI system combines billions of aerial photographs and Avenue View photographs into one massive 360° picture. Are you planning an actual go to? In Immersive View you instantly see how busy it’s at a sure location and what the climate is like there. That manner you’ll not be confronted with disagreeable surprises.

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Now you can go to numerous cities with Google Maps. Initially, it solely involved Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, London and Tokyo. With the newest replace, not solely Bruges and Brussels have been added. Amsterdam, Dublin, Firenze and Venice can now even be visited digitally through Google Maps.


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