city background -- easy button?

[s_gru]

attached is a render comparison to a google earth 3d image. at the time i was not able to work on this so we outsourced. so how did they get the city modeled so well? they must have modeled it based off a google image/earth view, but actually did the model of the building themselves?

[dlparisi]

Streetview and some so-so photoshop cleanup: https://www.google.com/maps/@44.2030...oASAFQAw%3D%3D

[fixeighted]

Honestly I don't think I understand what the question is. Can you clarify some more exactly what you mean to achieve?
What did you outsource?

[glorybound]

Yeah, I don't think they modeled anything. It looks like they upscaled the Google Street View.

[s_gru]

yeah sure enough that's it. i've used backgrounds like that before. for some reason i thought this was modeled. but also thought it was odd they would have known it was a post office sign, unless they used street view. i've played around with Placemaker and other plugins for SU etc... usually they are off quite a bit. i've also tried google earth photogrammetry to 3d model, and that's never been that great. sometimes i'll mass out buildings and use street view for textures. i've also taken photos of street corners or empty lots and used that as my photomatched background in max.

[glorybound]

Have you looked at https://cadmapper.com/?

[s_gru]

ah yes, i believe wwe have that for sketchup as well.
thanks,