We'll keep adding more cities, but don't feel left out if we don't have your hometown yet - modeling in a place you've never been is a fantastic way to discover more about it. Our early beta testers insist that Building Maker is more like a game than a tool.Check out this video to see Building Maker in action:įor now, you can choose to make buildings in any of about 50 cities. You can make a whole building in a few minutes. If it looks right, and if a better model doesn't already exist, we add it to the 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth. When you're done, we take a look at your model. Basically, you pick a building and construct a model of it using aerial photos and simple 3D shapes – both of which we provide. We like to think of Building Maker as a cross between Google Maps and a gigantic bin of building blocks. As such, today we're announcing the launch of Google Building Maker, a fun and simple (and crazy addictive, it turns out) tool for creating buildings for Google Earth. One of the best ways to get a big project done - and done well - is to open it up to the world. Some of us here at Google spend almost all of our time thinking about one thing: How do we create a three-dimensional model of every built structure on Earth? How do we make sure it's accurate, that it stays current and that it's useful to everyone who might want to use it?

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