Today, turning on the 3D building layer in Google Earth will show you both 3D buildings contributed by users via our 3D Warehouse, and also photo-textured buildings that we’ve modelled to really bring Melbourne to life in Google Earth.
Get a preview of the experience by checking out the cool fly-over video below.
If you'd like to take a crack at modelling a building for Google Earth, the tools are free and everything you need to get started can be found here. As inspiration, look at the amazing things ZNO have done in Christchurch, New Zealand.
If you haven’t already, download Google Earth 5.0, and fly around 3D views of great cities from around the world, including San Francisco and Christchurch. It’s one of the ways we’re continuing to make Google Earth an even richer experience, with the addition of Street View imagery, historical imagery, and terrain imagery.
