Who added every Nashville building to Google Earth 3-D?

09 June 2009

It's gorgeous.  It's worth downloading Google Earth to fly over Nashville alone. About 2 years ago, I played on Google Earth for fun.  I would always checkout Nashville to see if any of the buildings had been made 3-D like they were in New York or DC. 

I never saw one building in 3-D Now, every building of note, and hundreds that are 'below of note' have been sketched-up in 3-D in Nashville.  And with amazing detail. I've done some short research on who did the work with nothing found yet. How those buildings work is that Google Earth has aerial photographs of the

Earth that it splices together to cover the planet and adds in GPS/survey based altitude data for hills and valleys.  For buildings, they can't become 3-D from aerial photographs, so Google built/bought a program for creating 3-D architecture called Sketch Up.  With that an artist/designer can create buildings by hand using computers. It's a decent amount of work to do one building well.  I'm so happy because someone has done all of downtown well.