Google Building Maker - New!
Google Building Maker - New!
Contributors will be able to help creat buildings for over 50 cities.
(likely to expand in the future)
"We [Google] like to think of Building Maker as a cross between Google Maps and a gigantic bin of building blocks. Basically, you pick a building and construct a model of it using aerial photos and simple 3D shapes – both of which we provide. When you're done, we take a look at your model. If it looks right, and if a better model doesn't already exist, we add it to the 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth. You can make a whole building in a few minutes."
The YouTube Video shows how fast it is to add/contribute your own buildings, Google will check them and when verified they will acknowledge your work.
Building Maker in Cardiff - with simple tools to create buildings
Requirements before you can contribute:
- Building Maker is an online tool, and it runs entirely in your web browser (Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc.)
- Before you can add a building to Google Earth, you need to sign in to your Google Account (so you get credit for what you contribute).
- Models you create with Building Maker "live" in the Google 3D Warehouse (a giant, online repository of 3D models).
- You can use Google SketchUp (the free, general-purpose 3D modeling tool) to edit or otherwise modify anything you make with Building Maker.
- Make sure you have the latest version of Google Earth installed on your computer.
- If using an Apple Mac, you need to download the Google Earth plug-in directly.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwh/buildingmaker.html
source:
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-google-building-maker.html
Labels: Buildings, Contributors, Google, Google Earth, Google Maps, Model Builder, Sketch Up
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