Google Presents Seven Cities In 3D

Here's a bit of news that belongs in some strange borderland between cutting-edge technology and the plot of a "Corner Gas" episode: seven local governments have worked with Google to publish 3D models of their cities.

Amherst, Greenville, McMinnville, Nanaimo (British Columbia), Nashville, Jamestown, and Washington, D.C. should now be available for viewing within Google Earth's "3D Buildings" layer.  Some of the models seem to have colors and textures; others are full of building-shaped gray blocks.

That may be a little overoptimistic, but so long as we don't have a complete "

As for the future, odds seem to favor that at least a few of the next cities to be shown in 3D will be located in