Populating Google’s Earth

October 14th 2009 in Programs

Crowd-Sourced Building Maker

Unlike the flight simulator embedded in Google Earth, this is productively entertaining.

We like to think of Building Maker as 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.