Google Building Maker?
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Hear hear
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I also see it this way. It is obvious that a quantitative boost can only generate qualitative demand. When a couple of hundreds of people make buildings with SU all over the world (I mean in a bigger quantity now), GE will never get populated. There have always been "grey block" cities (i.e. low quality) and similar - now the low quality will have a boost and some additional quality as far as basic texturing goes.
But it will eventually generate more interest in better 3D content.
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The way I see it, Google Earth is obsolete since G maps Streetview got mainstream (as said above).
I hardly ever use Google Earth but I very often use Maps. Why would I want to download an app (GE), if G Maps does a far more photoreal thing out of the box straight in my browser...?The logical evolution would be seeing technology developed that extracts 3D from both street view input combined with the satellite top view....automatically.
The proof of concept is already there (ThomThom posted it somewhere).I really can't imagine the whole world being modeled by hand for Google Earth. It feels old fashioned, will never be completed and to be honest, the current low poly GE models very often look crap.
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I agree with Kwist and modelhead. Personally, I think the Google Earth 3D buildings community is...and always will be...decidedly niche. Obviously, I'm very aware of SketchUp and use Google Earth fairly extensively...but I hardly ever bother with the 3D building layer. Frankly, the 3D buildings just get in the way of reading the road names and other details. Street View is far more useful. Nor do I think that things will improve any when more buildings are available...in fact they will get worse.
Has anyone tried looking at Tokyo lately with 3D Buildings turned on? The darn city is still loading 10 minutes later, even on a broadband connection...and most of those buildings are just clay; can you imagine what it would be like if they were all mapped? -
@kwistenbiebel said:
The way I see it, Google Earth is obsolete since G maps Streetview got mainstream (as said above).
I hardly ever use Google Earth but I very often use Maps. Why would I want to download an app (GE), if G Maps does a far more photoreal thing out of the box straight in my browser...?The logical evolution would be seeing technology developed that extracts 3D from both street view input combined with the satellite top view....automatically.
The proof of concept is already there (ThomThom posted it somewhere).I really can't imagine the whole world being modeled by hand for Google Earth. It feels old fashioned, will never be completed and to be honest, the current low poly GE models very often look crap.
Have you seen Place Pages on Maps yet? You might reconsider the usefulness of geo-located 3d models. Check out this as an example: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=14784564406270036321&q=cathedral%2Bdakar
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