Reminder: Google Earth flight simulator

Gargamel · 05-01-17, 07:54 AM

If you are really ambitious, you can learn to model in SketchUp, which was at one time a google product, and I believe is still related. I do mainly 3d printing modeling on it, so I have done very little with the architecture side of it, so the following may not be exactly accurate.

Sketchup has Google earth integration. If you create a real world model of a structure, it can be imported into GE. I think you can immediately import into you local version with few problems, and the global version I think gets peer reviewed, and then added to the main GE database.

But adding real world structures is fairly simple in SU, you can take multiple photos of a building, import them, and then trace the edges in SU. After telling SU the length of a few of those edges, it will create the structure for you, using the correct dimensions and textures of the real world object.

So you can go out and photograph your local neighborhood, and fly around it in GEFS. I've always wanted to try it, but never took the time.

05-01-17, 07:54 AM	#2
Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,273 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	If you are really ambitious, you can learn to model in SketchUp, which was at one time a google product, and I believe is still related. I do mainly 3d printing modeling on it, so I have done very little with the architecture side of it, so the following may not be exactly accurate. Sketchup has Google earth integration. If you create a real world model of a structure, it can be imported into GE. I think you can immediately import into you local version with few problems, and the global version I think gets peer reviewed, and then added to the main GE database. But adding real world structures is fairly simple in SU, you can take multiple photos of a building, import them, and then trace the edges in SU. After telling SU the length of a few of those edges, it will create the structure for you, using the correct dimensions and textures of the real world object. So you can go out and photograph your local neighborhood, and fly around it in GEFS. I've always wanted to try it, but never took the time. __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.