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Put On Your Hard Hats, You Can Now Create 3D Buildings In Google Earth
TechCrunch —
Google is launching their version of Sim City today, Google Building Maker. The tool lets you create buildings for Google Earth. Building Maker lets you pick any building and construct a 3-D version of it using photos and building blocks provided by Google. Google says that buildings are relatively fast to construct using their tool, taking only a matter of minutes.
Building Maker runs within your web browser and connect with your Google Account so you can get credit for your building. You can also use Google SketchUp to edit or modify your ...
Google Building Maker: Creating buildings for Google Earth
D' Technology Weblog —
... buildings for Google Earth. “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 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth. You can make a whole building in a few minutes. For now, you can choose to make buildings in any of about 50 cities,” announced LatLong blog. ...
Google Launches Building Maker: Makes Adding 3D Buildings to Google Earth Easy
ReadWriteWeb —
For some locations, Google already shows 3D buildings in Google Earth. Today, Google released Building Maker, which takes an almost game-like approach to crowdsourcing the production of these 3D buildings. Users simply pick a building in any of the 50 cities worldwide where this project is currently active, pick a building you would like to model, and Google will present you with aerial images of this building. All the user has to do is align a 3D wireframe model of the building with these images and the building is automatically saved in the Google ...
Google Earth deepens crowdsourcing with Building Maker
VentureBeat —
... Building a comprehensive 3-D model of the world is definitely not going to be a top-down task. So Google Earth is taking a page from the company’s crowdsourced success with Map Maker and is asking people to help create 3-D versions of buildings around the world. ...
Help Map Your City in 3D With Google Building Maker
Mashable! —
Crowdsourcing is an increasingly popular way to tackle big problems — both Facebook and Google are taking this approach to translating the web into multiple languages.
Now Google is leveraging the wisdom of the crowds for another purpose: the Building Maker tool helps users make accurate 3D models of buildings for representation in Google Earth.
Using Google-provided aerial photographs, you essentially overlay appropriate 3D shapes on top of several different views of a building to ...
Google Launches 3D Building Maker Tool
Search Engine Journal —
... . It’s basically an online tool that lets you create, well yeah 3D model renderings of building structures on Google Earth.The Google Latlong blog explains the Building Maker as a cross between Google Maps and a gigantic bin of building blocks. It lets you build a building and construct a model of it using aerial photos and simple 3D shapes that will be provided by Google. Once you’re done, the Google Earth guys will examine your 3D model and if they deemed it fit, they will add it to the 3D building layers in Google Earth. ...
Linkpost | 10.14.2009
TechBlog —
... - Google Voice users will soon get invitations to send out (I don't see any yet in my Google Voice inbox). • Introducing Google Building Maker - Craft 3D buildings for use in Google Earth. • ...
Construct Your Own 3D Buildings for Google Earth Using Google Building Maker
Maximum PC all RSS Feed —
... tool for Google Earth. It is a new tool that lets almost anyone create 3D buildings for Google Earth. All you need is a Google account, the latest version of Google Earth and some rudimentary imaginative faculty to hit the ground running. ...
Google Building Maker Simplifies 3D
Screenwerk —
... , announced yesterday. It simplifies the process of 3D rendering dramatically, in an effort to get ordinary people online involved in building up Google’s 3D warehouse of images. There the best version of a building with multiple renderings is chosen and added to Earth (and Maps). ...
