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View some of the great 3D models of buildings, structures, sometimes almost entire cities present in the Google Earth 3D layer. This is a series of tracks designed to give you a tour in areas with many or particularly interesting models. Just mark the track of your choice and click on the 'play track' icon. Time has been spent to give you an easy and smooth view of great 3D buildings and structures which have been created and incorporated in the 3D layer of Google Earth. Be aware that 3D objects in GE may have a delay of display and consider to take the actual tour several times or pause/rewind it to wait to let the 3D objects and the rest of GE data to be cached and loaded to display. A placemark for each track has been supplied with a view to support best caching of 3D objects in the area. Upon that, clicking on the track itself will provide a view to hopefully cache (most of) the "other" part of the track.

After several hours of touring, creating the tracks in this collection, detecting 3D models, in all kind of places in Google Earth, I dedicate, these current and most likely ever evolving tracks, as a tribute to all those who contributed and continue to do so, to the 3D models in the GE layer. These tracks can only give a superficial picture, and never a sufficiently covered view, of the hard and dedicated work provided through the construction, design, research and model making of buildings or structures, large or small, detailed or superficial. Thank you all, you model builders!

Take this/those track(s) as an inspiration to look further into the area. Recommended to be viewed as a 'Play track' in Google Earth with the 3D and terrain layer enabled and a viewing angle of maximum (80 degrees). To ajust viewing angle, choose menu 'Tools', 'Options', Click the tab 'Touring' and change the 'Camera Tilt Angle' to 80 degrees. The default is 45 degrees. To play a specific track, mark the 'three dot icon' track, press the 'Play tour' option and enjoy the flyover of the area. Tour and track creator: Tom Kjeldsen, created may 2009.

44 areas currently covered in this Google Earth 3D model spotting tour: "Astana, Kazakhstan" - "Munich, Germany" - "Washington D.C., USA" - "Mexico City, Mexico" - "Angkor Wat temple, Cambodia" - "Guangzhou (Canton), China" - "Jakarta, Indonesia" - "Miami, USA" - "Lucerne, Switzerland" - "Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy" - "Christchurch, New Zealand" - "Chichen Itza, Yucatán, Mexico" - "Prague, Czech Republic" - "Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet" - "Macau, China" - "Antwerp, Belgium" - "Hong Kong, China" - "Cairo/Giza, Egypt" - "Istanbul, Turkey" - "Valparaiso, Chile" - "Tokyo, Japan" - "Auckland, New Zealand" - "Seoul, South Korea" - "Las Vegas, USA" - "Shanghai, China" - "Barcelona, Spain" - "Los Angeles, USA" - "Taj Mahal, Agra, India" - "Athens, Greece" - "Taipei, Taiwan" - "Paris, France" - "Toronto, Canada" - "Moscow, Russia" - "Dubai, UAE" - "Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia" - "Chicago, USA" - "Berlin, Germany" - "Singapore" - "Rio de Janeiro, Brazil" - "Rome, Italy" - "London, England" - "Sydney, Australia" - "San Francisco, USA" - "New York, USA".

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Since the original 23 tracks was submitted another 21 tracks has been added. Several existing tracks has been ajusted/extended for optimal view. Check out inside file version history log for details.

44 areas currently covered in this Google Earth 3D model spotting tour: "Astana, Kazakhstan" - "Munich, Germany" - "Washington D.C., USA" - "Mexico City, Mexico" - "Angkor Wat temple, Cambodia" - "Guangzhou (Canton), China" - "Jakarta, Indonesia" - "Miami, USA" - "Lucerne, Switzerland" - "Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy" - "Christchurch, New Zealand" - "Chichen Itza, Yucatán, Mexico" - "Prague, Czech Republic" - "Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet" - "Macau, China" - "Antwerp, Belgium" - "Hong Kong, China" - "Cairo/Giza, Egypt" - "Istanbul, Turkey" - "Valparaiso, Chile" - "Tokyo, Japan" - "Auckland, New Zealand" - "Seoul, South Korea" - "Las Vegas, USA" - "Shanghai, China" - "Barcelona, Spain" - "Los Angeles, USA" - "Taj Mahal, Agra, India" - "Athens, Greece" - "Taipei, Taiwan" - "Paris, France" - "Toronto, Canada" - "Moscow, Russia" - "Dubai, UAE" - "Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia" - "Chicago, USA" - "Berlin, Germany" - "Singapore" - "Rio de Janeiro, Brazil" - "Rome, Italy" - "London, England" - "Sydney, Australia" - "San Francisco, USA" - "New York, USA".