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D' Technology Weblog: Google Building Maker: Creating buildings for Google Earth
Electricpig.co.uk - The UK's fastest-growing tech news site: Google Building Maker: crowd-sourced Sim City
Lifehacker: Remains of the Day: 10-Finger Multi-Touch Concept Video Edition [For What It's Worth]
Google Building Maker: Creating buildings for Google Earth
D' Technology Weblog —
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. ...
Google Building Maker: crowd-sourced Sim City
Electricpig.co.uk - The UK's fastest-growing tech news site —
Google Building Maker is a brand new tool for Google Earth that any Sim City overlords and would-be Norman Fosters will go crazy for: it lets you make 3D buildings quickly and easily from the big G’s own snaps, and the best ones get to go on the official 3D building layer!
So Google Building Maker is a shameless attempt to get a load of free labour for Google Earth’s swish 3D building layer. We can live with that, especially when we get to try to cobble our own block of flats using Google’s satellite imagery, and claim credit for it thanks to Google ...
Remains of the Day: 10-Finger Multi-Touch Concept Video Edition [For What It's Worth]
Lifehacker —
[image] We take a look at a 10-finger multi-touch concept video, another concept video demonstrates how nicely Cover Flow and Expos could integrate with the iPhone, and Firefox 3.6 knows the tilt of your screen.
Google announces Building Maker tool for Google Earth
Geek With Laptop —
Google has just announced a new “Simple 3D modelling tool” called “Google Building Maker” that can be used to create 3D buildings on Google Earth. Basically Google Building Maker allows anyone who has access to the Internet to select a city from anywhere around the world and add their own creative touch to it. All you have to do is select your city and using aerial photos and various shapes provided by Google, make a building. You can construct your very own building by dragging and dropping your chosen shapes them into place. Once you’ve created your 3D ...

