Re: Virtual Reality and Google

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:57:11AM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2007 15:52:02 schrieb Markus Neteler:
> > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:29:51PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> > > Hello List,
> > > As an editor at german linux magazin I am currently writing on an article
> > > about virtual reality and google earth.
> > > Although I have found some tools, none of them seem to be able to replace
> > > google's sketchup for generating kml or kmz files. Blender can import
> > > these files and edit .dae models, but this is not working properly.
> > > 3DGeoexplorer is a commercial produkt (they generated virtual berlin in
> > > google earth, this is nice!)
> > > Both sketchup and 3DGeo are not available for Linux.
> > >
> > > Does anyone on this list know free Linux tools for 3D Modelling in google
> > > earth? Thank you in advance!
> >
> > With GRASS 6.3 (not yet officially released but snapshots are available)
> > you can elaborate 3D data and export to KML.
> >
> > For example, you can take a 3D drawing (DXF), import with v.in.dxf,
> > geocode with v.transform and export to KML with v.out.ogr as 3D
> > object. Note that the KML support in OGR is still somewhat limited but
> > I managed to export 3D buildings.
> >
> > Additionally, if needed:
> > - reproject to LatLong with v.proj
> > - extrude 2D building footprints to 3D blocks with v.extrude
> > - drape 2D vectors over DEM with v.drape
> >
> > Not really helpful maybe, but giving an idea,
> > Markus
> >
> > PS: Works on MS-Windows/MacOSX, too :)
> >
> Hello Markus,
> Thank you very much!
> Can you imagine writing an article on this topic? Or do you know somebody who 
> could and has time?
> :-)

Hi,

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An article for the OSGeo Newletter would be nice, currently I
am a bit swamped but could help someone else to write such an
article.

Cheers,
Markus


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