Thanks Lotts! No, its not supposed to hover but I guess Google Earth thinks Steamboat Quay is a few metres below water level 😉
Here’s my newer version where I matched ground levels and stretched a photo ‘skin’ over the surface to give it a ‘photo realistic’ rendering. Unfortunately Google Earth doesn’t yet support photo textures but at least you can do an interesting fly-by in SketchUp –
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=8ff698b110aa24a845b0d3eaa0ce1edd
Now if only I could get dimensions for the curvature of the roof I could get rid of that ‘bubble’ up top 😉