October 13, 2009
7:49 am
Google Building Maker: Creating buildings for Google Earth
Google Building Maker tool lets you create 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.
More info: Google Building Maker
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Does anyone know how many people are using this feature to build these buildings? Its a pretty need idea but why doesnt google take this out of human hands and use computers and the arial photos to generate these buildings? I mean who really has the time to site around and build fake buildings for no reason?