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Madison NJ’s 3-D town imaging expected to bring many opportunities for town

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A group of volunteers including a 16-year-old Eagle Scout are working on a project that will put Madison NJ on the virtual map, literally. They are making 3 D images of the downtown and uploading them so the models of the buildings can be viewed on google earth.

“It’s a very, very exciting project that will have tremendous prominence,” said Mayor Mary-Anna Holden. “This is really exciting to be able to fly in from a bird’s-eye view, to fly down and walk the street.”

In large cities you find 3-d imaging of streetscapes, but Madison is only the second small town in the country to do something like this. The town viewd this as a huge opportunity for tourism, town planning, marketing, and economic development of the buildings on and surrounding Main Street.

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