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In the case anyone is interested this day in Google Earth stuff…. Sent to the list about two months ago… I too have bought into
Google Earth deep enough, $400/year, to get the Professional level of utility
plus the GIS import module for an additional $200. I have been able to:
add TAB overlays like states that "snap" to Google's boundaries, add
special multi-layered TAB projects, string GPS bread crumbs, and absorb legacy
street TABs as well as SHP tiger layers. I have been able to add to my Profile
and Places current events and imagery related to our emergency states via blog
sites where the Google Earth-ites compete via cool hacks and POIs. The cartographic control of
points, lines and polygons (colors, lines, symbology and transparency) on TAB
imports needs work and at this moment is limited to sets of 200 objects to a
layer. They tell you Beta but its flawless so far. The system has had four if
not five transparent updates since I subscribed must three months over ago.
Additionally the registered user system provides for two configurations -
laptop and office or home? And the more I return to
places once visited a-far and discover new ones, what I am finding is
that there is more and more spatialized and googlized information appearing in
what I would describe as community hot-spots. These community hot spots grow
around features added in the Professional version. I have also been provided
trial periods for creation of fly-through movies and that was really
neat. I want better control of my TAB overlays before I would start
building fly-though movies to illustrate my on and off MIP project layers. This stuff is really
exciting. It’s likely to be a significant part of the WWW 3.0
"next-era" of the internet. Microsoft via an upgraded teraserver with
a new API and implicit functionality with MapPoint/Office is also in play.
Having used both Google's and Microsoft's earth products, I found Google's 3D
oblique view and logical mouse action simply more fun. Google Earth content is
IMHO far ahead of Microsoft’s Virtual Earth in imagery outside of the Compare Google Earth versus
Microsoft Virtual Earth - This ain't no average
hack!!! Thanks Ryan Jonasson! FYI MidNight Mapper Aka neil |
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