Google Maps Showing 3D Shapes Of Buildings

Semi 3D buildings comparison Hosted on Zooomr
Google Maps has added more detail to a bunch of major cities, subtly showing not just outlines of buildings, giving them an almost 3D look on a 2D surface. The look is superior to what the competition has (as you can see in the screen shot comparison of Google Maps, Windows Live Maps, Ask Maps), but doesn’t go the full distance to actual 3D, Google Earth-like maps in the browser, like Microsoft has been doing.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg