How to import buildings/terrain from google earth I'm making a live action short film where the characters fly a magic carpet over a city. It's a fast paced scene with the characters weaving around buildings and plummeting to the ground, and using drone footage as a background plate for my green screen footage wont work.

I was thinking of going CG for the view of the city using Blender, but then my problem is getting the model/materials.

I know Google Earth has very good coverage of the city this takes place in, so is there any good way to export Google Earth terrain/building data into Blender so I can proceed to tidy up the models/materials and render it in Cycles?
As far as I know There is no way to do this from Google Earth. There is, however a site called openstreetmaps.org that lets you do what you are envisioning. A great tutorial i found is CG Geek's Realistic city tutorial

you probably dont need to watch the whole thing, but the first part will show you how to do this