good luck for people outside of US and Europe using it. I created 26 3D buildings for Porto Alegre and one for Novo Hamburgo all on Sketchup, by taking photos from GROUND LEVEL of the buildings, myself.
if you havent seen them, check out this thread
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...=170479&page=3
just a little sneek peek... ALL the building models here were created by me.