Esri Collaborates with Google Maps Platform to Offer High-Quality Photorealistic 3D Tiles

At its 2025 Partner Conference, Esri 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.