Google Maps 3D: Data into Blender

See my updated version of this process here: https://youtu.be/p-pyZ3QIxio UPDATE - August 2025 - I can confirm this is working with: Chrome Portable: Version 131.0.6778.265 (January 2025 version) https://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/Google%20Chrome%20Portable/GoogleChromePortable64_131.0.6778.265_online.paf.exe/download ***Warning! Do not use this chrome for purposes other than Google Maps 3D, it is an old version so it might have security vulnerabilities. Also, if Chrome Portable updates itself then the Google Maps Capture process might not work.*** RenderDoc 1.31 MapsModelImporter 0.7.0 Blender 4.5.2 In order to enable 'Inject into Process' in newer versions of RenderDoc you need to go into: Tools - Settings - General - 'Enable process injection' and restart the app. In this video I show you how to extract 3D data from Google Maps using RenderDoc and the amazing MapsModelsImporter by Élie Michel. Please consider donating on his Github page if you find this process useful: https://github.com/eliemichel/MapsModelsImporter This is the text that you need to add to the Chrome shortcut 'target' field to run it in debug mode (delete the existing contents beforehand): C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "SET RENDERDOC_HOOK_EGL=0 && START "" ^"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe^" --disable-gpu-sandbox --gpu-startup-dialog --disable_direct_composition=1" or C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "SET RENDERDOC_HOOK_EGL=0 && START "" ^"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe^" --disable-gpu-sandbox --gpu-startup-dialog --disable_direct_composition=1" If your Chrome is installed in a different location to the one above you may need to go in and change parts of this text. You can download the MapsModelmporter addon here: https://github.com/eliemichel/MapsModelsImporter/releases You can download RenderDoc here: https://renderdoc.org/ You can see a tutorial on cleaning up the mesh here: https://youtu.be/XUkMY8Sp_AM You can see Elie’s original video here: https://youtu.be/X6Q7dbtXVZQ You can download Blender here: https://www.blender.org/download/ Donate to Élie here: https://github.com/eliemichel/MapsModelsImporter You can see how to use Blender GIS here: https://youtu.be/YNtKnmRXVlo Thanks also to Bjørn Terje Hansebråten who recommended this process to me in the Blender GIS comments.