Downtown Development Initiative: Our Fair City Before Lot #5

Making some progress on a GoogleEarth visualization of downtown.

Here’s some data if you want to either visualize Chapel Hill within GoogleEarth or want to start fresh with a re-import. Small caveat on the GoogleEarth import – don’t turn on the terrain as I still need to tweak the elevations to get the right output.

If anyone manages to adjust the terrain before Sunday, please consider routing the changes back my way….

Tools:

• GoogleEarth
• Google Sketchpad (to create the 3D models)

Data:

• Chapel Hill GE KMZ Model File
• AutoCad 3D Model [ZIP] (provided by CH Planning – thanks Gordon)
• 3dStudio [ZIP]

Hope to have Granville Towers and RAM’s Lot 5 proposal by Sunday. And, with any luck, a decent flyby to demonstrate the visual impact of the 104′ leviathan.