Viewfinder not only enables photos to be placed in the right geolocation on a 3D model like Google Earth, but “poses” them at the correct angle.
i did this by hand last fall and i would not do it again.
Tag: googleearth
Google Earth Ate Our Town
The city’s planning department has, over the past 5 years, steadily fed Google a wealth of information about its buildings, property lines, utilities and streets. The result is earth.nanaimo.ca, a clearinghouse of city data viewed through the robust and freely available Google Earth 3D mapping program. The site sorts and maps every business, from restaurants to car dealers, while a click of the mouse brings up the lot size for every property in the city, including the building permit number and zoning history. Homeowners can use the facility to find out specific information about their garbage collection schedule, while the city’s 150-year-old downtown core is rendered in 3D and dotted with 360-degree panoramas.
how to wire up a whole town with geodata
Google Earth MMO
MMO game for Google Earth. Explore the world as you collect gold, fight evil monsters, and try to collect the crystals that are guarded in major cities across the planet.
Earth Panos
The object of that little experiment was to see if I couldn’t create a 360-degree panorama in Google Earth. The answer was yes, with an additional unexpected use for the georeferenced photos on Flickr — you can turn them into placemarks and position them in front of the panorama, in effect creating clickable hotspots usable from within Google Earth’s PhotoOverlay view.
awesome. but far too complicated! we have to make this 10x easier.
Weather in Google Earth
In the latest release of Google Earth layers, we’re letting you play weatherman by publishing a slew of great, dynamic weather data.
neat
Exploring the Groth Strip
a narrow band of sky on the edge of Canis Major and Bootes that’s absolutely crawling with galaxies, and which astronomers have decided to subject to the scrutiny of just about every instrument in their arsenal
GEboards
the first fully-functional message board that exists entirely within Google Earth. Talk about any location, store, restaurant, event or cool quirk in Google Earth.
Earth Navigation
i thought i had bookmarked this a long time ago?
Addictive SketchUp
Color me deeply impressed. While you’re at it, add some heavy tints of addicted. I started by modeling our kitchen, and now I want to do the whole frickin’ house. I’m starting to eye local landmarks for recreation and contribution to Google Earth.
KML Astronomy
In an ideal world all such observational astronomical data would exist in a machine-readable markup format, and I’m willing to venture it soon will. Just as it took the geospatial web 1 year or 2 to reorient itself towards making its data available in a format compatible with KML, the astronomical web will take a while to provide its data in a similar format.
lets hope this speeds up astronomical discoveries
Gregor J. Rothfuss 