What is interesting about the project is how simple yet effective it is. Of note is the lack of zoom facility, but if you could get Google Earth to change its projection (so it can be beamed onto a sphere), then you could easily make of these at home. The concept of zooming becomes problematic of course but one that could be worked around….

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What is interesting about the project is how simple yet effective it is. Of note is the lack of zoom facility, but if you could get Google Earth to change its projection (so it can be beamed onto a sphere), then you could easily make of these at home. The concept of zooming becomes problematic of course but one that could be worked around….

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With our placement problems resolved (thanks to the comment from stfn in the previous post) we have uploaded a model of London Bridge Hospital. The model was created as a test a while ago with placing textures in Sketchup to extrude models from.

Photomodelling in Sketchup is quick and intuitive but does not provide accurate height measurement which is why we are developing a photo rectification tool to improve on this. In the mean time we have provided the facade photo (655k)we used for modeling so you can have a go yourself at creating the model, let us know how you get on or if its a help.

Maybe we need to do a ‘tutorial’ section on this so any feedback is welcome as ever.

You can download the kmz file to fly into the model in Google Earth here (660k)

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With our placement problems resolved (thanks to the comment from stfn in the previous post) we have uploaded a model of London Bridge Hospital. The model was created as a test a while ago with placing textures in Sketchup to extrude models from.

Photomodelling in Sketchup is quick and intuitive but does not provide accurate height measurement which is why we are developing a photo rectification tool to improve on this. In the mean time we have provided the facade photo (655k)we used for modeling so you can have a go yourself at creating the model, let us know how you get on or if its a help.

Maybe we need to do a ‘tutorial’ section on this so any feedback is welcome as ever.

You can download the kmz file to fly into the model in Google Earth here (660k)

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We were about to release a few of our older photomapped models and encountered a problem with placing the models in Google Earth. Using the standard Sketchup technique of grabbing a Google Earth location and then exporting results in a model a good 20 metres out of place.

Its all nicely lined up in Sketchup via Google Earth but when the files loaded its shifted. Terrain is on so the only thing we can think of is a slight bug somewhere in the process.

Any thoughts would be welcome.. and while we are here the lighting model in Google Earth looks like it needs a bit of a tweak to make sure the buildings are evenly lit. Its clear from our screengrab that the textures are coming in dark if they are facing north…..

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We have placed online a first draft output using our in-house software to obtain accurate height/facade data from photographic modelling. Using a camera calibrated algorithm we can ensure accurate placing of windows/doors etc to rapidly create city models.

With the beta version of Google Earth, these can then be easily imported and viewed. The software is currently being developed, if you would like further details please feel free to email.

You can download the kmz file to fly into the model in Google Earth here (4Mb)

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We have placed online a first draft output using our in-house software to obtain accurate height/facade data from photographic modelling. Using a camera calibrated algorithm we can ensure accurate placing of windows/doors etc to rapidly create city models.

With the beta version of Google Earth, these can then be easily imported and viewed. The software is currently being developed, if you would like further details please feel free to email.

You can download the kmz file to fly into the model in Google Earth here (4Mb)

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Adding to our first post on London in 1690 in Google Earth using image overlays we are now publishing London in 1666. The above image illustrates the layout of London in 1666 by Wenceslaus Hollar.

Hollar was appointed by the King to make exact plan and survey of the City after the Fire on London in September 1666. The fire destroyed 373 acres inside the city walls and 63 acres outside, 87 churches destroyed (including St. Paul’s Cathedral) and 13,200 houses.

Aligning historic maps is notoriously difficult – here we have aligned the road network and the north bank of the river to provide a overview of the City as viewed by Hollar.

You can download the kml file to fly into the overlay in Google Earth here

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Adding to our first post on London in 1690 in Google Earth using image overlays we are now publishing London in 1666. The above image illustrates the layout of London in 1666 by Wenceslaus Hollar.

Hollar was appointed by the King to make exact plan and survey of the City after the Fire on London in September 1666. The fire destroyed 373 acres inside the city walls and 63 acres outside, 87 churches destroyed (including St. Paul’s Cathedral) and 13,200 houses.

Aligning historic maps is notoriously difficult – here we have aligned the road network and the north bank of the river to provide a overview of the City as viewed by Hollar.

You can download the kml file to fly into the overlay in Google Earth here

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After reading a post on Ogle Earth about stereo views in Google Earth we thought we would revisit a previous post on the 3D Euston Tower and create a 3D view of New York.

If you sit back from the monitor and view the image, the city floats in front of your screen – interesting but not much use, ultimately a Friday thing to do…

You can view a full screen version of the image here.

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