Comments on: Google Earth PhotoOverlay – Download and Tutorial

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:23:42 +0000

MEMORY Parameters Details

I have been using this WONDERFUL java software for preparing GoogleEarth based panoramas for some months now, and I LOVE IT! THANK YOU to the developer and to all users who provide useful feedback!

Here is a recent challenge that I have learned to overcome:

I’m working with large .JPG panorama images, some are larger than 150 MB. The program does not spawn errors to screen when it fails on a large file.

If you edit the batch file
—
start javaw -Xms512M -Xmx1024M -jar photooverlaycreator.jar
exit
—
and remove the “w” from the “javaw” command, you’ll get a CMD window that displays errors and status in it.
This will show you a “out of Heap Memory” error when the file size gets to big for the allocated memory to handle.

SO, i tried increasing the “-Xmx1024M” to “-Xmx2048M”, but this fails immediately.

The value that is working for me now is
“-Xmx1280M”
and it’s working quite well for the files I’m processing, perfectly normal operation.

BTW, earlier docs for java indicate a “BigApps” parameter, but this fails completely, so I’m guessing that it’s obsolete in recent java versions.

HOPE THIS HELPS other panorama addicts, I’m very proud of the OpenSource community worldwide for being so, well so OPEN!

Regards,
ixboat
http://www.steamboat3d.com

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=ixboat&styp=m&btnG=Search&scoring=d

By: Smithee

Smithee — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:42:02 +0000

if you drop richard milton a email (find him via the people page at casa.ucl.ac.uk) he should be able to help on a server solution. 🙂

By: Vincent Ogloblinsky

Vincent Ogloblinsky — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:14:26 +0000

Hi,

Did you know if there is a server solution for your image cutter software?

Thanks

Regards

By: SBL

SBL — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Thank you for posting this great tutorial. The instruction is easy to follow. Love it!
Regards,
panorama service

By: UNBStudent

UNBStudent — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:26:00 +0000

Hello Folks
Thanks for the great addition to Google Earth. PhotoOverlay has proven to be a powerful, useful tool. I do have one inquiry however. Currently I am working on an area in Google Earth and inserting many spherical and cylindrical panoramas into a small space. Because the spheres that hover in space are so large, the area has become quite cluttered. Is it possible that I could create a smaller icon such as those used for placemarks that, when clicked, loaded up the .kml panorama? As well, I cannot seem to get my cylindrical panoramas to completely encircle themselves. That is they look like a soup can with a vertical slot cut out of it (I am using a 360 degree jpeg for the image). Is this the right view?
Thanks so much and keep up the good work.

By: John

John — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:37:00 +0000

Hi

Great tool, have been having some fun with it, but have experienced a problem now. It worked fine the first few times I used it, now when I create a spherical Panorama although the panorama itself views ok, the thumbnail in the nav window top right show a image which is 3/4 black and shows the whole pano image in the top left quarter? I'm running OSX10.5.2 on MacPro 2.66 dual, viewing in google earth 4.2.0198.2451(beta).

Thanks for putting this together I like it alot

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:52:00 +0000

Cool tool just what I needed, thanks for making it so...

Great suggestion Ron, regarding matching headings with the topography

Critical1

By: jschrader

jschrader — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:39:00 +0000

the tool has some potential, but seems very difficult to publish data properly. i can’t open my own files through ie and opera, only firefox sometimes opeens the application.
changing mime settings in opera didn’t help.
anyway, maybe you have some more luck with this:
http://www.schrader-air.de/panorama/lasvegas.kml

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:07:00 +0000

Soren - a nice review :) thanks a lot - much appreciated and nice to see the tool being used.

Same with Ron, glad it works and let use know any other pics you put up using the tool so we can maybe run a post on them...

Andy

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:05:00 +0000

Jeffery -

Thanks for the comment - we are big fans of 360cities and plan to do a post on it soon as we have time away from Jury Service...

:)

Andy