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Mountain View, Oct 13 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A three dimensional building maker has been added to the library at Google Earth.

In a press release Google announced that, “From large cities like New York and Tokyo, to small towns like Madison, NJ and Dursley, England, a growing number of places around the world have become explorable in 3D with Google Earth. We’re working towards an ambitious goal – to display 3D models of all the world’s buildings in Google Earth – and we know that in order to accomplish this, keep the buildings up to date, and make them relevant, we need to make the modeling process as open and inclusive as possible.”

It added information about the new tool in Google Earth, “Today, we’re launching Google Building Maker, a new way to create geo-located 3D models of buildings for Google Earth. Building Maker is a tool designed to make it possible for anyone with a web-browser to make high quality, photo-textured 3D models. In many ways, Building Maker is like a very large, and very smart, collection of building blocks – if you can assemble the blocks to match the shape of your favorite building, you’ll be able to use the tool.”

Basically Google has a very ambitious plan to include 3-D models of all the buildings in Google Earth but for that it needs its millions of users help. It wants the users to replicate their building through its Building Maker tool in Google Earth and then add it to Google Earth as a landmark.

“We like to think of Building Maker as a cross between Google Maps and a gigantic bin of building blocks,” Mark Limber, Google product manager, and Matt Simpson, Google user experience designer, wrote in a blog post. “Basically, you pick a building and construct a model of it using aerial photos and simple 3D shapes – both of which we provide.”