How to Create 3D Terrain with Google Maps and Blender!

Whoa! Didn't realize there was a free addon that did this. Awesome tutorial!

Dude, I wish one day I also can steer my mouse by telepathy

very nice thank you

Seems not to work so well in 2024 under Linux. USE 3.6 VERSION OF BLENDER.

1:08 CG Geek: "so while that's downloading then" 408 KB zip: "am I a joke to you?"

For those interested, SRTM stands for Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. This was done 20 years ago. It's basically binocular radar. One transmitter in the cargo bay, 1 receiver in the cargo bay. Then a boom extended 200 ft off the side of the shuttle with another receiver. Then they just turned it on and radar mapped the Earth as they flew over and got two signals from slightly different points of view (just like your eyes) and used that to computer really accurate terrain maps. It's a pretty cool mission.

Also, for the latest version of this GIS add-on, API key is needed to get SRTM ellevation data.

Awesome tool, saves me a trip with the drone to our local mountain range .....Question: Could you make a tutorial on how to implement the actual soil /geological data in this as well?

Wow, I wasted my entire weekend looking for a simple tutorial for this purpose. When I gave up on research, I found this one by chance. It's amazing.

This is great! GIS is so cool.

one thing... if you use it in 2024 and above you got to choose a mode from 3 different options. Here you need to select the third option as the first and second require an API Key and from what I have worked with API(s) They are usually paid unless they are generous like Google. Instead this 3rd option doesn't require an API key hence it is Free I believe this was not told in the video and has to be mentioned If needed you can copy this comment, comment it yourself and Pin it so you can change the Comment by further Updates

This is brilliant, a single step basically to get the 3D model.- thank you. Any thoughts on how you'd add a path to that 3D data? Like a walking track.

"Open Street Map Data from Google" do you know how many people you just made scream?

sometimes I think I'm clever, then I find someone like you and I realize I'm thick and the world is right again.

Hmmm, well this took me absolutely ages to get anywhere as I've never used Blender before (but want a real world terrain for my UE5 game - hopefully I can just Import it there lol, but who knows)... for anyone else wondering how he "scaled along the z axis", you press "Z" after selecting "S + 0" and that selects the axis you want to scale (found that out by just trying pressing keys haha)! Oh, and don't forget you have to select the object first (yer, I didn't think of that either) to do anything! Oh, and you can't see the mesh and the extruded bit without setting "Viewport shading - Wire Edges" on (the round circle with the grid on it, top right of window with the other 3 circles), and hold down the middle mouse button with something selected to rotate stuff around!

I'm a noob with blender and thought this was going to be a step by step. Whoa the way you blow through the program is amazing! Hoping to learn to interact with it as fluidly as you do! You should make tutorials for total noobs too 😁😁 Like this tutorial but super watered down.

I have been using GIS data for Architectural visualizations for 15 years now, and you just knocked HOURS of my work time, especially in areas where I needed the surrounding buildings!

Dont forget you can press L (then scroll with middle mouse wheel) before you press E and increase the texture resolution by getting it to download the textures from a higher detail level but at the size yourve selected before you press E. (Hope I made sense :D )

This is great, and could be very useful in my job. My question is, if I have my elevations for an area in 3D, and I want to add a shapefille showing polygons of landslide susceptibilities, How would I get those to show? I imported a shapefile to my 3D view, but they aren't showing.

Really nice add on and well presented! Thank you. I wish you had shown how to get good camera angles on the terrain. I'm having trouble with that. Perhaps due to object scale?