Atlanta Google Earth/Sketchup Modeling Project

As I was taking pictures of buildings in Atlanta I began to realise that I didn't have a very good grasp of what many of the buildings were called or who designed them. This seemed unfortunate to me, being as I am a practicing architect (intern) in the Atlanta area. as I began to surf the net for more information on buildings in Atlanta I came across the Emporis website. A great resource if you don't know about it, giving info and images of individual buildings in most of the major cities in the world.

After this discovery, and the recent purchase of sketchup by Google, and how this is going to impact both Sketchup as a design tool and Google Earth as becoming more useful with the 3D side of it, I thought it would be interesting to start putting together 3D models of the whole downtown area of Atlanta.

I started in Midtown with Colony Square and The Campanile building by TVS. I haven't gotten beyond these buildings yet but it got me thinking the next day, "what if I could have other people help me with this?" Not them doing the work but putting together a group of fellow Atlantans to callaborate on modelling Atlanta.

How would I go about asking or assembling anyone to do this? Well, I haven't figured it out yet but figured that if I get it started atleast that maybe others will see what I am doing and maybe it will attract some interest. We will see.... I will of course post the progress of this new "project" soon.