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here in Google San Francisco offices the company just announced three major new additions to Google Earth on google maps so what we're looking at here is a preview of some new technology what I'm showing here is an example of this new 3d imagery and reconstructed buildings on a Galaxy Nexus and Here I am in san francisco so i'm just going to go ahead and pan around and show the fact that i can just fly around these 3d models we haven't announced an exact date but this is going to be coming out in the in the coming weeks where does the stata come from do you own or contract your own airplanes to do this so we do have our own planes as well as contract with partners for acquiring the imagery that's necessary for creating these 3d reconstructions we're really excited about bringing this technology to our users wherever they are on whatever platform there in today I'm here to tell you that you will no longer need those paper maps like many other google apps Google Maps is going offline once you confirm your selection the map will automatically start downloading onto the device and as you can see the map may be clear at this zoom level but as I get off the plane and start zooming in you'll notice that the map is virtually unusable now as a comparison the device where we have just downloaded the google map as i start zooming in the map remains clear even down to street level so you can easily see where you are and where you're going here is what we call the tracker let's see if I can play done correctly we hope to you know use this and working with partners as early as this forum even sooner go to a whole bunch of places and bring you imagery that you've only dreamed of see