Posted by Bruce Polderman, Product Managerįriday, October 1st marked the closure of our SketchUp Questions and Ideas Series. Models such as these from Oregon City are beginning to appear in Google Earth.Īll five communities will deliver a report on their progress at the National Main Streets conference in May 2011. With volunteers now trained, the project transitions to the development phase. Alex Oliver, CEO of Igloo Studios recently blogged about the experience.
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In early October, the last of the five communities gathered its volunteers to learn how to put their downtown on the digital map. Igloo Studios, an authorized training center for SketchUp, coordinated with leaders in each community to schedule the training sessions. Despite the different goals, all five shared a common vision to use their Main Streets in 3D projects to attract entrepreneurs, jobs, investors, and visitors to their towns. The winning communities were announced in July.Ĭontest submissions varied from using the digital model for tourism promotion, to city planning, to creating an urban forestry plan – all ideal use-cases for having a publicly available 3D model.
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Five towns would be selected to receive a full day of training to develop 3D models of their downtown using SketchUp and Google Earth. The result was “ Main Streets in 3D.” The concept was simple a contest would be held among local Main Street programs where they would outline a vision for how their downtown would leverage a digital model. With city budgets under pressure, the Trust was keen to explore how a community modeling approach could be expanded by downtowns across the nation. The concept for developing a digital model of a downtown area was conceptualized by the town of McMinnville, Tennessee, which was among the first small towns in the U.S. Posted by Tom Wyman and Chris Cronin, Project Spectrum TeamĮarlier in the year, we were approached by the National Trust for Historic Preservation to discuss how their member communities might leverage Google’s 3D modeling and visualization tools to support downtown revitalization programs. They include beds that can rock, multiple compartments to store and organize belongings, calming colors, soft lighting, pleasing textures, curved walls, natural light, differentiated “zones”, and some very cool hi-tech toys.Ĭongratulations to JP and all of the Sketch-a-Space winners! We hope that their beautiful and thoughtful designs will become blueprints for tomorrow’s living spaces. The designs are both beautiful and functional. Check out JP’s video below:Īll the winners’ entries display one of the goals of the competition – to introduce design elements that are important to the autism community.
It’s not only fun to imagine hanging out in JP’s room, but also eye-opening to hear (and see) his design choices. In it, you can hear JP explain why he chose each element in his design.
Grand prize winner and (perhaps not coincidentally) longtime SketchUp user JP Saikali produced a thoughtful narrated video for his design “The Ultimate Video Game Room”. It was clear upon meeting them that we needed to work together shortly thereafter, the Sketch-a-Space competition was born.Īfter a number of months and lots of great entries, the results are in.
(I have to admit that most of my Easter Seals associations dated back to the stamps my grandma used to send me when I was a kid.) Fast-forward a couple of decades, and it turns out that Easter Seals dedicates enormous resources to serving the autism community – and they’re a great group of people. One of the most rewarding has been getting to know the folks at Easter Seals.
Our Project Spectrum team has been lucky to form a number of great new relationships over the last couple of years.
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