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Kite Aerial Photography Immersive Panoramas in Google Earth

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Kite Aerial Photography (KAP) has always intrigued us, we own a large power kite and of course the panoramic gear, we just haven’t had the faith in our kite flying skills to combine the two. Scott Haefner runs one of our favorite sites and has just sent us a email to let us know that he has put a number of his KAP panoramas into Google Earth using our ‘Step inside Spheres’.

The Spheres, Google Earth and KAP go hand in hand and are well worth a look, in fact its stunning to see the use of these three technologies together. Take a look at Scotts site for the Google Earth files.

If you want to create your own Google Earth ‘Step Inside Sphere’ or ‘Google Earth Bubble’ (we are still thinking of a good name for them) then follow our Tutorial.

Google Map Image Creator – Preview

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Modelling buildings often demands resolutions higher than medium priced digital cameras can capture. To this end we often use a zoom lens and stitch together a batch of images to create a high resolution facade.

To date there has been no easy way to place these images online for viewing, as such we are pleased to announce the forthcoming GMap Image Cutter by Richard Milton at CASA (home of digital urban). GMap Image Cutter slices up high resolution images and creates a Google Map template in which to view them, a quick and easy solution to sharing or proofing large image files.

Pictured above is the Old Dispensary in Newham, London – use the controls to zoom in and out. Created from over 20 6Mb photographs it captures enough detail to assist the modelling process, GMap Image Cutter has processed the image into 1365 separate files.

Andy Warhol Elvis Google Earth Panorama

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In another in a series of posts detailing how to create ‘step inside panoramas’ viewable in Google Earth we combine 3D models with panoramas to go inside the Tate Modern, London.


By embedding a panorama inside the building and combining a series of viewpoints you can fly around the outside of the Tate and then go inside to view the Andy Warhol exhibition.

To view Elvis and Marylin Monroe by Andy Warhol in Google Earth, download our kmz file and click on the viewpoints to ‘step inside’ the Tate Modern.

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