All though this has been in my mind several times before, it sometimes takes someone mentioning it to cause one to commit. Once I saw that Google Earth had 3D building capability and even more so when I found out it was users that were creating the building, I've wanted to make Sketch-up models so that my flat 3D-Building-less town could enjoy the eyes that the larger cities may get in Google Earth. It sort of goes along with my whole "become a part of the internet" thing back when I started my Wikipedia account to help upkeep and expand it. Wikipedia is definitely a great tool and I use it almost daily.
In light of the fact that I will be dedicating time to this endeavor so (I, solely can claim to many that I created a representation of the city,) I am starting a new Blog beyond this one, yet to be titled, that will be a list of my travels learning Sketch-Up, Google's 3D modeling app used in Google Earth. This is not so that I can brag that I modeled my town but so others can get involved in their city/town's modeling projects for Google Earth. Heck, they could even be the first their town much like it seems I am to be. I hope that this new blog can be of some help to new users to Sketch-up and hopefully relieve some of the troubles I had when trying to figure out how to upload to Google Earth from Sketch-up as well give some tips and tricks to using Sketch-Up more efficiently as I learn them.
I will keep updates for this new blog posted here close to daily.
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