Tips & Tricks for Google Apps: Google Buidling Maker
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An incredibly cool development to come from Google yesterday is their new Building Maker tool.
There is a layer on Google earth where you can view buildings at scale, offering a more realistic city view, granting users wider context to neighborhoods and surroundings. To help populate this layer with more buildings, Google is crowdsourcing building creation using this new tool.
We 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.
Creating new buildings is incredibly simple, for more information on how to do it check out the video.
