Ladies and Gentlemen, start your modeling engines! Google’s “please create a 3D model of this city for us” project, Building Maker, has come to Houston. To do the bidding of your Google masters, of course, you’ll need to download and install the Google Earth plugin for your browser.
- Building Maker: Create 3D buildings online [Google]
- New Building Maker Cities [Google Earth Blog]
- Building Maker in 8 more cities and 25 new languages [SketchUp Blog]
Check out Vancouver in Google Earth. The project has created 3D buildings for much of the city (including single family homes).