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Vintage Representation of Popular Online Brands [Posters]

See what happens when you retro-fy popular brands in poster form.

More retro-fied posters at DesignFloat.

Tags: Facebook, google earth, LAst.FM, Online Brands, Posters, Retro, Skype, twitter, Vintage, youtube

Google Building Maker: Create 3D Buildings for Google Earth

Building Maker is a 3D modeling tool that allows you to create and add buildings to Google Earth. The tool also works with Google Sketchup (Google’s 3D Modeling Software) so you can edit and modify your 3D building. You can setup a building in matter of minutes by using the building blocks and images that are provided by Google.

In order to create your three-dimensional model, you’ll need to get the Google earth plugin for your browser. The plugin is needed in order to run the builder engine. You can start by selecting location or a city from around the world. You can choose the location available for editing or you can let Google choose for you. Simply position building blocks on top of aerial images to quickly create realistic looking buildings. You’ll also need to have a Google account in order to save your 3D project for inclusion in Google Earth. It will be reviewed by Google, and once approved – your creation will be included on Google Earth for everyone to see.

Google Building is a way of sharing your 3D modeling talents to the whole world and get credit for it. If you’re looking for something to do on your free time, you can try making a 3D building using the app and see your creation appear on Google Earth. The app works on your browser and once you’ve downloaded the required plugin, you can immediately start playing Sim City – Google Style.

Watch the demo video below

Tags: 3D Building, 3D Models, Google, google earth, Google Sketchup

Quikmaps Lets You Draw on Google Maps

QuikMaps is a map service editor with a few simple additional features that Google Maps can’t provide. It allows you to draw lines on the map, make scribbles and insert different markers. This is service not only helps users in providing geo locations (which Google Maps can do on its own), it also allows users to add more information in the map.

The editor is very simple and very easy to use.

• To add markers, simply drag the markers to your desired location on the map and just drag them around to move them. Left click the marker to add information on that particular marker and Right Clicking the marker will immediately delete it. There is also quite a fair amount of markers and icon sets that you can choose from.

• Drawing straight lines on the map is done in a connect-the-dots manner. Simply choose draw line on top to the map and place a dot on the point of origin and place another on a different location.

• The Scribble tool is a freehand drawing tool. You can doodle and scribble to your heart’s content using this tool.

• You can also add text labels on the map by dragging the Text Label icon to the location you want your text to appear on. To delete a text, just right click on the text and it will disappear.

• They also released their API code to the public so developers can integrate QuikMaps to their web applications.

When you are finished with your map doodling and marking, just insert a title for the map, place some information if you like and save it. You can easily access the map again for editing. The map can be easily exported to KML(Google Earth) and GPX(GPS) format or you can get the embed code to place it on your blogs and websites. Check below for the sample I took from QuikMaps.

Tags: geo location, google earth, google maps, map, quikmaps, web service