Following the success of last year’s Google Model Your Town competition, today we're launching the second Google Model Your Town Competition. Model Your Town is about geo-modeling – making photo-textured models of real-life buildings that appear in Google Earth. The Model Your Town Competition is also a chance to celebrate your town by adding it to the 3D map. Of course, the USD$25,000 for a local school/district is a nice incentive too.
The Model Your Town Competition is open to just about everyone, just about everywhere in the world. Form a team, model buildings (using SketchUp or Building Maker) and upload them by the end of February 2012.
You can model as many structures as you like – which types of buildings you choose to include is entirely up to you. The important thing is that your choices say something about the character and history of your town.
If your town wins, a bunch of us from the SketchUp team will visit, throw you a dinner party and do our best to make you feel like the local hero that you truly are. Check out the competition website for details, and start rounding up teammates!
Here's some inspiration by way of the 2010 winner, Jorge De Albertis, from Lima, Peru (just to get your creative juices flowing):
New to geo-modeling? Learn more at Your World in 3D, then get started modeling your town!
Posted by Allyson McDuffie, Google Geo team
Why Brazil is out of the competition?
ReplyDeleteO Brasil está sim na competição, ta nas regras, só que ninguem ainda se inscreveu
ReplyDeleteO que está escrito nas regras é isso: EXCETO PARA ITÁLIA, BRASIL, QUEBEC, Cuba, Irã, Síria, Coréia do Norte, Sudão e Mianmar (Birmânia).
ReplyDelete"The Model Your Town Competition is open to just about everyone, just about everywhere in the world."
ReplyDelete"Residents of Iran, Sudan, Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Myanmar (Burma), Quebec, Brazil, and Italy ARE NOT ELEGIBLE to participate."
Why not Brazil?
Residents of Iran, Sudan, Cuba, Syria, North Korea and Myanmar (Burma) are not eligible to participate. As well, residents of Brazil, Italy and the province of Quebec are not eligible due to local regulatory compliance requirements. You can get answers to other questions about the competition at http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/competitions/modelyourtown/faq.html
ReplyDeleteCan you do a particular neighborhood within a large city? does it have to be a whole town?
ReplyDelete私の住んでいる街は,kitami,hokkaido,japan
ReplyDelete12万人の街なのに初期の航空写真のままです。
残念！
That's really interesting why Brasil don't take part in competition!!!!
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