Hyperlinks: Building Model Contest, Google Wave

The Monopoly building model competition Hasbro: Hasbro, the author of the Monopoly City Streets game , has just announced a competition that will allow users to create models of buildings that can appear in the game. Until October 6, create your building model using Google SketchUp , and then upload it to Google 3D Warehouse . Within 48 hours, your model will appear in the official Building Competition Collection. The more buildings you create, the higher the chances of winning. Make sure your buildings are shipped before October 6; and the winners will be announced on October 13th.

Google Wave: A lot of the anticipated Google Wave project is scheduled to open for more than 100,000 new users the next day. Although it is mainly a means of collaborative labor, it also has enormous potential for the world of cartography. Pamela Fox of Google has been working on a googlokard wave gadget for some time, and today she arranged for a preview of it. Integration of Maps and Waves is simply a brilliant idea, as you will see in the video below. In addition to simple Maps, I expect that for Google Earth we will see a gadget plugin by the time not too far. Take a look at this video here - see what they managed to prepare: