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September 06, 2006
How to Make a Google Earth Panorama
The guys at DigitalUrban have put together a cool tutorial on how to create a panorama photo using Google Earth. Their method basically outlines how to set up a virtual camera on a "tripod" and take multiple screenshots of GEs satellite photo landscape. Then use a panorama stitching program like Stitcher by Realviz to create an initial file. Some photoshop work is needed to add some realistic clouds and fix some stitching artifcats due to anomalies created due to this being a 3D model (not the real Earth). The result is a file viewable with Quicktime [2.8 Mbytes] (or some other QTVR viewing program) which let's you spin about and see the panorama.
It would be neat to see if you could do a closer to ground panorama with 3D buildings in GE. Then, I'd like to see if you could use the TriDef stereoscopic viewer to create a stereoscopic 3D panorama with GE...
One of DigitalUrban's readers has already produced a different Google Earth panorama using the tutorial.
Recently, someone did something similar with Half Life 2 (the 3D first person shooter), letting you view 3D panoramas.
Posted by FrankTaylor at September 6, 2006 07:24 AM
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Posted by: Jan Melin at November 17, 2006 03:23 PM
The panotool seems to be back :-)
Posted by: Jan Melin at November 28, 2006 03:40 PM
Sorta like www.panoramicearth.com then?
Posted by: David at May 15, 2007 08:24 AM
Not really Dave, Panoramic Earth (http://www.panoramicearth.com) shows cylindrical 360 panoramas that people have taken from the various places and links them to Google Map of the world. The method described here lifts an image from Google Earth and wraps that. One is original photography and the other is not.
Posted by: Peter at July 7, 2007 05:05 AM
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Posted by: ARASH at September 28, 2007 01:58 PM
can i recover all my info previously loaded to G. Earth? I had a disk fail with no hard back up drive, I was hoping for a way to access a server since I have the same e.mail addresses as before. All that work...gone?
Posted by: David Lintz at December 11, 2007 01:15 PM
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It seems that Gabys Kmz Panorama Capture Tool at
http://tracks.landais.org/panokml.php no longer exists.
Is there any tutorial out there how to calculate placemarks for panoramas?