Esri Collaborates with Google Maps Platform to Offer High-Quality Photorealistic 3D Tiles
At its 2025 Partner
Conference, Esri—the global leader in
location intelligence—announced a collaboration with Google Maps Platform.
Enabling users to create highly detailed and visually immersive 3D maps and
scenes, this collaboration integrates Google’s Photorealistic 3D Tiles into the
ArcGIS suite
"We are excited
to collaborate with Google Maps Platform and bring this valuable data to our
user community," said Richard Cooke, Corporate Director of Global Business
Development at Esri. "By making Google's Photorealistic 3D Tiles available
for our users, it empowers them to enhance a wide-ranging set of innovative
maps and apps with high-quality 3D Tiles that provide global coverage, fresh
updates and are high-resolution for solving real-world challenges."
The integration of
Google Maps Platform's Photorealistic 3D Tiles into ArcGIS will allow users to
construct richer maps and scenes, supporting analytics, across a variety of
applications including urban planning, real estate, and public sector
infrastructure projects. This collaboration is part of Esri’s longstanding
commitment to providing users with high-quality geospatial data and 3D basemap capabilities
"Users have long
sought more detailed and photorealistic 3D basemaps," said Deane Kensok,
ArcGIS Content CTO at Esri. "This 3D basemap will be a valuable addition
to our basemap collection, providing a more realistic and detailed view of metropolitan
areas for large parts of the world. It can be used on its own or seamlessly
integrated with users’ data, enhancing the visual context and eabling more detailed
and accurate analysis.
Access to
high-fidelity 3D meshes provides users with the ability to visualize projects
such as urban development plans, real estate planning, and AEC projects, all in
realistic environments. This allows users to explore and overlay their own
data, like points of interest or community resources, to create comprehensive
and detailed maps. This new integration also empowers users to perform
interactive analyses, such as shadow studies, lines of sight, and viewsheds. As
a result, stakeholders can see a clear and detailed representation of potential
future outcomes within a visually familiar landscape.
Esri customers will
gain access to the world’s most comprehensive photorealistic 3D map with Google
Maps Platform's high-resolution Photorealistic 3D Tiles, available in 2,500
cities across 49 countries. All this content will be available through users’
subscriptions to ArcGIS Online.
“We know creators and
developers across platforms want rich, photorealistic 3D visualizations and
that is why we are excited to bring Google Maps Platform’s Photorealistic 3D
Tiles to ArcGIS,” said Eugene Yeh, Director of Go-to-Market for Google Maps Platform.
“We look forward to seeing how Esri’s global community of geospatial
professionals uses 3D Tiles to enrich their understanding of the world.”
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