Town hall 3D model story

Ten months ago, I have created this architectural 3d model of the old town hall of my city of birth. I have uploaded it on Google 3D Warehouse and made a request to publish it on the 3D buildings layer of Google Earth. My model was on the review queue waiting to be accepted.

Five months later, I received a review message: improvements needed before acceptation. The improvements to be done was not so explicit. Indeed I get an indication on which criteria my model did not fit. It was "Incomplete Texture". And it was sadly true...

That was not an error or missing, nothing else but my willing. The problem here was that I had no pictures of this part of the building. And instead of create something that does not exist in reality, I preferred to leave this part as it is (with this fancy plain color).

Correcting this is not a huge task. I could have textured it with some default wall texture and submit the model again. This could have solve the problem, Google reviewers would have been happy with it and it would still indicated an absence of information. But I was busy during that time and just forgot about it. Another pertinent excuse is: there is no Linux version of Google SketchUp (I am using mainly Linux now).

Recently, I was surprised to see a blue ribbon next to my model, indicating that it has been published on the Google Earth 3D buildings layer. I wondered how that could be since I have made any "improvements", it should have not been published. I was curious to see if that was true. I had a look on Google Earth and it was effectively there...

... at least partially.

Apparently the motto is : "Fully textured or not textured at all!"

What a binary world...