{"id":59072,"date":"2009-12-02T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Model-Your-Town-and-Win-a-Visit-from-a-Google-Team-128583.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-02T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T10:45:00","slug":"model-your-town-and-win-a-visit-from-a-google-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/59072","title":{"rendered":"&#39;Model Your Town&#39; and Win a Visit from a Google Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/Model-Your-Town-and-Win-a-Visit-from-a-Google-Team-2.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/> Google Maps is great for practical information, and satellite imagery can be very useful and fun in many cases. Adding a third dimension though can make things a lot more exciting, so Google is pushing to get more 3D models for Google Earth with a new competition dubbed &ldquo;Model Your Town.&rdquo; The name says it all, Google wants people to recreate their towns or villages in 3D for a chance to win some money for the local school system and international recognition for the town and modelers. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&#8217;re pleased to announce the first-ever, international Google Model Your Town Competition. You&#8217;re invited to use our free tools &mdash; SketchUp and Building Maker &mdash; to make sure your community is represented on the world&#8217;s biggest 3D stage,&rdquo; Allyson McDuffie, SketchUp for Education program manager and Aidan Chopra SketchUp evangelist wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Every town that participates has the chance to be included in Google Earth&#8217;s 3D Buildings layer where millions of people can see it. The winning town (as decided by a popular vote) will win money for its schools, a Google-sponsored party for its modelers and plenty more,&rdquo; they added. <\/p>\n<p>Google Earth already has an impressive amount of 3D buildings, but they&#8217;re mostly for well-known places and large cities. Adding models for most o&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Model-Your-Town-and-Win-a-Visit-from-a-Google-Team-128583.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps is great for practical information, and satellite imagery can be very useful and fun in many cases. Adding a third dimension though can make things a lot more exciting, so Google is pushing to get more 3D models for Google Earth with a new competition dubbed &ldquo;Model Your Town.&rdquo; The name says it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}