Featured Screenshot: Denver Cityscape

This month's screenshot features the city of Denver, with detailed building models for the entire downtown area.

Google Warehouse is becoming an increasingly valuable resource for Geoweb3d users.  The Sketchup community is producing plenty of 3d objects, including entire cities worth of detailed 3d buildings.  Streetview integration within the latest Sketchup, as well as the recently-released Google Building Maker are making it easy to build up urban areas quickly and without expensive training or software tools.  The upcoming 0.95 release of Geoweb3d Desktop will allow models to be loaded directly from Google Warehouse.

Geoweb3d Desktop can visualize thousands of high-detail textures buildings together with detailed street-level scenery without giving up interactivity or dynamic data interoperability.  Large-area 3d urban scenes are now within the grasp of a planner or GIS user using a standard mid-range laptop or PC.