Google Maps, Earth take on full 3D imagery

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Google is keeping the [string of Maps launches][3] going -- it's just rolling out very, very detailed 3D maps for technology like [Google Earth][4], using a "new process" to get extra depth. In some areas, such as San Francisco, it models every building and delves down into the trees. The new fully textured, fully modeled imagery is coming both to Android _and_ iOS in the "coming weeks," and Google even made a point of showing the update running on an iPad. Just how deep this rabbit hole goes is an unknown right now, but it certainly ups the ante for Apple's rumored [giant iOS 6 Maps revamp][5] and the 3D mapping it might be using from [C3 Technologies][6].

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