Click on the image to open the collection in Google Earth
Not even a fortnight ago, forum member Jack B. Erhart – aka “Jax” or “Jaxcoffee” after his Coffee House and Roastery in Paso Robles CA – started a project; to model all existing Carnegie Libraries in the US. As a first step, he started with his home sate of California and already three members of the SCF community (him plus “leedeetee” and “MuseumMaker“) together with others from elsewhere, as can be seen from the project’s Google Group site are working on the models in the 3D Warehouse collection page. So far there are 13 models – that would roughly make one a day which is quite impressive – so the collection is growing.
Hopefully the project will flourish, more and more skilled and enthusiastic modellers join and these fine, historic buildings receive the attention they deserve and the Carnegie Foundation will eventually find a way to support the project. Congrats Jax and the others and hooray for the project!
“If you have a model that’s too complex for our systems to handle or there’s some other issue preventing the model from getting reviewed or going live, you will now find a “Processing issues” icon attached to the model… You’ll be able to tell at a glance which of your models have been accepted, which are awaiting review, and whether there’s any models that weren’t accepted and have feedback available…”
“Since our launch of Street View in May 2007, it has consistently been one of Google Maps’ (and Google Earth’s) most popular features. We’ve also found that it has been one of the features that folks are most curious about, so we have given our Street View overview site a refresh that puts everything you wanted to know about Street View in one place.”
Really amazing quality of modelling for Google Earth. Congrats to Nick (aka “SittingDuck”) and Chris (aka “KR=”) who have completed a good deal of the historic centre of the Antwerp. Chris’ spectacular model of the main Cathedral of Our Lady (in the picture above) is a focal point for this area.
It seems that I should have been much more active in modelling for GE… Maybe next time.
“Starting tomorrow, August 6th, twenty Google Earth 3D modelers will join us in Boulder, Colorado for a two-day conference. These super modelers are flying in from locations around the world; including, Brazil, Belgium, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, Argentina, and around the US. They have created and published hundreds of beautifully detailed 3D models in Google Earth.”
Yet another cool and useful tutorial video on the proper methods to build models for Google Earth in Google SketchUp. Read more or watch the video below.
Earlier this year, Google announced the launch of the Transit Layer, a feature that makes it easier for citizens and tourists around the globe to access public transportation line information in their cities. They’re continuously expanding the coverage of Transit Layer, and have added support for transit systems in China, Japan and Russia, which are some of the most complex and remarkable metro lines in the world. The Transit Layer is not only useful to plan a visit, but also to see a city’s history, structure of transportation systems, and daily life.
Earlier this week, Google released tens of thousands of new 3D buildings in Japan. Major Japanese cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto have joined the growing list of cities and towns prominently displayed in Google Earth’s 3D buildings layer.
