I shall not be able to cover any video streaming part as that will be out of scope for this article and against my company's policies. In this article, I will cover the code of my prototype and the explanation side by side. Our clients are quite impressed with this and I am soon going to develop a full fledged interface. After 3 days of work, I ended up creating a successful prototype of what I desired. I also did research on Ajax, Jquery and restful services pattern so that I could interact with server side. I started my research and was impressed with bing maps initially but as they revoked their 3D maps feature, I ended up using Google maps for my solution. For the last couple of days, I have been thinking of making a sophisticated dashboard with live maps (all 3D, 2D, street view), tracking live positions of the camera, streaming video on the side with a whole lot of other information and settings to customize the dashboard view. The difference in height and the relationship to the boundary line can be seen in the two images below.I work for a company 'Momentum Technologies' in Australia which provides real time video streaming solutions. I loaded both PDF files into the same Photoshop document, and drew a rectangle over the 2D terrain (figure 1) to establish my cross section boundary. The technique I used can be found under the printing imagery section of my How to Save or Print High Resolution Images from Google Earth Tutorial. I was able to get a 13,200 x 10,200 pixels image by printing to an 8.5″ by 11″ PDF at 1,200 PPI. To get a narrow field of view, download this KML file, which will set your camera to 1 degrees. To get an orthographic look, that value should be as small as possible, to minimize the effects of perspective. The default camera in Google Earth has a field of view of 60 degrees.

This effectively flattens the terrain while keeping the same imagery that is used for the 3D image. 01 (tools > options > 3D view > terrain > elevation exaggeration). The first with the terrain and 3D Building layers on, and the second with an elevation exaggeration value of. Software Required: Google Earth, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign (Optional)īegin by exporting two views of the same area in Google Earth. This tutorial will teach you how to create a 3D section cut using 3D satelite imagery from Google Earth, with post-processing done in Photoshop.

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