Converting Shapefiles (and more) to KML. A while back I wrote about converting KML files into a shapefile for use with GIS apps other than GoogleEarth. I got a ton of emails and site traffic from people looking to go the opposite direction; getting their GIS data into KML. There are, of course, a couple of utilities already implemented: ArcMap-based extensions including KML Home Companion and Arc2Earth, a nice MapWindow app called Shape2Earth, and the open source WMS Geoserver all support KML output. Not to be left behind, GDAL/OGR now supports KML output. Oddly enough it does not yet read KML. But hand it any OGR-readable vector dataset and it can be converted into KML. It currently doesn’t offer as much control over the output as the above options but is quicker to implement, works with a wide variety of input formats and can be easily scripted.
This functionality is in CVS only at the moment but should be included in the next release. The conversion process is pretty straightforward. Converting Large Panoramic Images to PhotoOverlays for Google Ea. By David Martin, Jeffrey Martin, and the 360Cities Team Outline Introduction You are probably already familiar with medium of 360 degree panoramic images from either Google Street View or KML PhotoOverlays in Google Earth (from the Gigapxl, Gigapan, or 360Cities layers). Tools for authoring panoramic images are getting very good, but the process of preparing and presenting such images on the web is still difficult.
That is part of the motivation behind the creation of 360cities.net: panoramic photographers use our site to replace the otherwise difficult and time-consuming process of publishing their geotagged panoramas to the web. You can turn on the 360Cities gallery layer in Google Earth to view panoramas from our system. The screenshots below show how these panoramas appear in Google Earth. Google Earth Screenshots (click to view larger images) What is a Panoramic Image? A panoramic image is the ultimate wide angle image. The Birth of Benjamin Martin by Jeffrey Martin Conclusion. EarthBrowser. GPS Visualizer. Ogle Earth: 360Cities does KML 2.2 panorama spheres. Free GeoTools. Google Earth Panorama. Virtual Globes Directory :: covering Google Earth and 20 others.
WWP for Google Earth. This bookmark list for Google Earth links to the World Wide Panorama events based on the provided GPS data. Download google earth places including the latest event "Atmosphere"Latest Update: 2008-04-26 with small icons wwp_308_small.kmz (~390kB) with big icons wwp_308_big.kmz (~390kB) The Worldwide Panorama is now also included in the "Community Showcase". You just need to activated the layer: The official Placemark file can also be downloaded directly from the World Wide Panorama - Big Map I also have created a similar list for NASA WorldWind. If you like to know more about panoramas please visit the PanoTools wiki for further information. Compiled by Thomas Rauscher Examples: Europe Detail view impressum. Google Earth Blog. Link Geotagged Flickr photos to Google Earth and Google Maps.
Flickr2Map is a free service that allows Flickr users to link their photos to a variety of different maps. Here's an example. To use Flickr2Map, you must geotag your photos and then place the appropriate links in the Flickr photo descriptions. These 2 requirements are described below. There are 2 ways to geotag photos. Geo:lat=32.12345 geo:lon=-103.987654 geo:dir=135 That's all there is to it. If any or all of these tags don't exist, Flickr2Map will try to determine them from the photo's EXIF headers. The direction tag (geo:dir=angle) is optional. There are advantages to using EXIF instead of Flickr tags. 1. Once your photos are geotagged using either of the above methods, all you have to do is link to the Flickr2Map URL anywhere (description, notes or comments) on the Flickr photo page. Flickr2Map determines the Flickr photo by looking at the HTTP referring URL - that's why the links must originate on a Flickr photo page. 1.
Www.robogeo.com/Flickr2Map/ 2. FlickrFly for Google Earth. FlickrFly Official Docs – Fly to location of your Flickr photo in Google Earth For some time I have been tagging many of my Flickr Photos with geographical locations. This is done using a variety of tools from Steeve, GreaseMonkey in Firefox and, most recently GMiF. I have also been having immense fun with Google Earth, and wanted to be able to “Fly” to the location of a geotagged Flickr Photo What is FlickrFly? FlickrFly is a script that can be linked from the description or comment of a geotagged Flickr Photo to fly you that location in Google Earth. How to use FlickrFly Getting Started For FlickrFly to work your image needs geographical information (i.e. latitude and longitude).
If you are lucky enough to have a camera that has a built-in GPS then this information is (usually) encoded in the image as part of the “EXIF” information. Simple To use on your own images simply add the following line of HTML to the description or comment of a geotagged image in Flickr. Almost as Simple Customised.