Building Maker – Create 3D buildings online.
Google introduces a new tool to create buildings for Google Earth. After watching the video, if this is really how easy it is I am going to get my 7 year old son on this one. He would love to do it.
“Why would anyone care?” you ask. Well, aside from being able to virtually visit any major city and have 3D graphic representations of buildings and major monuments, this opens the door to a mass of data that could be collected about each building. Maybe you are looking for a space and want to know if you will be able to see the mountains from your window, or see the city skyline from your new house. Eventually maybe we will be able to click on the building and find out what businesses are in there, what their hours are, get a phone number, look for vacancies and rental rates, etc. I have a feeling that down the road we can tie this to intelligent building software that can evaluate the energy performance of each building and get an overall view of how the city as a whole is using its energy. This has already been started by the BIMstorm people. Check this out if you want to find out more about what they are working on. Kimon Onuma, founder of BIMstorm is testing the bounds of Building Information Modeling. Personally with my love for floor plans I would like to see them available to municipalities at least in the event of an emergency they can easily pull up schematics of the building in question and get a better feel for what is going on inside.
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