Patrick Wright, NOAA coastal associate for the State Planning Office, and Gary Smith, of Green Mountain Geographics (the paper got his company name wrong) taught 17 people SketchUp at a training class at Bowdoin College in Brunswick.
Here's how it works:
After distributing to participants CDs that contained assignments, Wright explained that the group would focus on about 106 Brunswick buildings for its project. These buildings included businesses such as Day's News, Bull Moose Music, Hannaford and 7-Eleven. Also included were local churches and libraries. Wright split the 106 buildings into 12 color-coded blocks, each with about 10 buildings in it. One block was assigned to each group of two. Also, some volunteers offered to work on additional blocks in order to complete the project.
If all goes well the buildings will all be modeled in about five months.
- Times Record News
