When I first saw the
Google Earth Plugin I thought, "That's cool, we have to showcase that on the
3D Warehouse!" So we changed our
3D Model Map to use it. But, my real goal was to use the plugin to show users their fully navigable geo-models on Earth, right in the web page. A little typing, a bit of paperwork, and ta-dah! It's ready.
To see this in action, first find a
geo-referenced model in the
Google 3D Warehouse. Then, click on the
Map tab and choose the
Earth map type (this plugin is currently only available on Windows). You'll see the model load and the view change to focus on the 3D model - all within the 3D Warehouse.
Posted by Mark Limber, 3D Warehouse Product Manager
Please oh please make it work with Chrome! I hate Internet Explorer; it's too complicated to use.
ReplyDeleteGenius idea, Mark!
Would it be possible to have an embed code so that you could put selected buildings (3d maps) onto your own site ?
ReplyDeleteOr maybe a 'how to' for doing this ourselves
If you're willing to look at JavaScript, it's not too hard to do it yourself. Visit this page:
ReplyDeletehttp://earth-api-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/interactive/index.html
Look at the code that shows up when you click on: Fetch good kml
I agree that it would be great to have this automated from the 3D Warehouse, but we don't have
that today. Thanks for the feedback!
Video for the Mac users?
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