Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Google Street View hits the Olympic slopes!
Google equipped a snowmobile with its Street View equipment to show users what the ski trails look like for the 2012 Olympic Alpine skiing events. Google even made sure to create 3d models of the buildings at the resort to show up when you are using Google Earth. Side note: you can create 3d models to be uploaded to Google maps using Google Sketchup. Sketchup is a free, easy to use, 3d modeling program. So in less than an hour you could create a 3d model of your own house and upload it to Google for everyone in the world to see. What will Google do next when it comes to creating a virtual world? Maybe record sounds of the streets? What do you think?
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This is very cool. Do tou just go to Google Earth to see these trails? Or did you find them on a news (like NBC) website?
ReplyDeleteThe part about putting a 3D image of your house online is a little creepy. I feel like that might be an invasion of privacy. But this could really come in handy with directionally challenged people like myself. (I do know how to read a map, it's just my internal sense of direction that is lacking...)
You need to download Google Earth and then search for what ever it is.
ReplyDeleteI have played around with Sketchup a little bit but far from being an expert at it. My goal this year was to introduce it to my students but that has yet to happen either. But maybe I can still do this before the end of the school year.
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