The Bureau of Surveying and mapping in China has announced that they are nearly finished measuring and digitizing the last surviving portions of the Great Wall. The digital models are being created from detailed photographic mappings of nine provinces in the northern region of the country.
Furthermore, the traditionally Internet-unfriendly Chinese government will make the models available online.
This is a great example of the preservation benefits of 3D digitizing and modeling. Even though the wall is significantly degraded, future generations will be able to view and reproduce this "Wonder of the World" as it stands at this time.
Maybe Google can convince them to allow the inclusion of these models into their recent efforts to catalog history?
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