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June 24, 2007

Cómo agregar un cielo en Google Earth

James Stafford, conocido en la Comunidad de GE como "Barnabu", ha escrito en el Barnabu blog una nota buenísima sobre cómo crear un cielo 3D para Google Earth. Lo llama "Domo del Cielo". Básicamente ha creado una semiesfera (o hemisferio) usando Google SketchUp, y luego agregó, proyectado apropiadamente, un cielo lleno de nubes al interior de la semi-esfera 3D. Tomó uno de sus modelos 3D, el Edificio Torso Retorcido, y creó un video mostrando cómo se vé dentro de SketchUp. Véanlo aquí:

Yo dí un paso más. Bajé su Edificio Torso Retorcido , y luego bajé su ejemplo de "Domo del Cielo" en SketchUp. Luego, importé la Vista Actual desde GE (simplemente seleccionando "Herramientas->Google Earth->Obtener vista Actual"). Luego exporté el Domo del Cielo a GE, seleccionando "Herramientas->Google Earth->Colocar Modelo"). Nota: También hay 2 íconos en la Barra de Herramientas de SketchUp para facilitar esta tarea.

Pueden ver el resultado bajando esto modelo de domo que mostrará el modelo de cielo y, si ya lo tenías descargado, el Edificio Torso Retorcido dentro de GE. Sólo ahora tienes un cielo alrededor del edificio. Puedes editar las Propiedades del Domo dentro de GE "Modelo" y arrastrar para mover el cielo a una nueva posición. Inclusive puedes cambiar el tamaño también. Puedes mirar hacia el cielo si tienes un SpaceNavigator (Navegador Espacial). Esta historia de Barnabu explica cómo puedes aplicar diferentes imágenes de cielos al Domo, usando SketchUp. Gracias Barnabu!

Otras cosas excepcionales de 'barnabu':

• Tierra Rebotando
• Edificio Torso Retorcido
• Nubes de Júpiter en Movimiento.
• Animación de Edificios de Londres creciendo.
• Saturno en GE
• Capilla "Kings College" en Cambridge.
• Cuartel General del MI6.

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June 22, 2007

Revisión de Noticias: Iniciativa Google Earth de Beneficencia, Earth Pantalla Gigante, Pollmapr, Conferencias

• Iniciativa Google Earth de Beneficencia - El Martes 26 de Junio, estoy llendo a la Oficina de Google en Nueva York. Google envió invitaciones a la prensa hace dos días para anunciar un nuevo programa creado especialmente para las organizaciones de Beneficencia de todo el mundo. La Red de Tecnología de Beneficencia informó sobre la invitación recibida. Los únicos detalles que se conocen al momento son los oradores: John Hanke, Director de Google Earth; Jane Goodall, del Instituto Jane Goodall; Kathy Bushkin Calvin, de la Fundación Naciones Unidas; Edward Wilson, del Instituto "Earthwatch"; and Elliot Schrage, de Relaciones Públicas de Google.

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  La Tierra en Pantalla Gigante - Apple muestra Google Earth en una pared gigante de video usando 18 pantallas Apple de 30 pulgadas y alta resolución. Aparentemente una Mac Pro fué utilizada para cada dos pantallas. ¡Me hubiera gustado verlo por mí mismo! Fué presentado en la Conferencia Mundial de Desarrolladores Apple 2007. via OgleEarth.

• Pollmapr - Herramientas Geográficas Gratis informa sobre un nuevo sitio gratuito que te permite realizar encuestas. Lo interesante es que el sitio ofrece la posibilidad de registrar, mediante la IP del usuario, la ubicación de quien participa, mostrando ciudad/país del mismo. Pollmapr luego, provee un archivo KML para poder ver los resultados en Google Earth.

• Conferencias - Se aproximan las conferencias de Mundos/Globos Virtuales: Conferencia y Exposición de Mundos Virtuales de Otoño tendrá lugar en San Jose, California el 10 de Octubre de 2007. También, el próximo mes está Geoweb 2007 del 23 al 27 de Julio de 2007en Vancouver, British Columbia. El CTO de Google Earth, Michael Jones, será uno de los referentes en esta Conferencia. Esta, probablemente, sea mayormente del interés de la gente de Google Earth. Me gustaría ir pero esa semana estaré navegando por el Caribe!!!

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June 20, 2007

News Roundup: GE 4.1 Stuff, Plotting a Trail, Business Reviews, More Second Earth

• GE 4.1 Stuff - The Google Earth 4.1 beta has been out for more than a month. There are a couple little features I haven't mentioned. First, they fixed a bug which prevented you from looking straight up in Google Earth. And, when using the SpaceNavigator you can look up at a 3D Building and when you let go the view stays looking up (pre-4.1 would pop the view back to the horizon). In addition, during time animation, the background star field animates according to the passage of time (see a post about this at Barnabu's site). There is an annoying bug in 4.1 which prevents the compass in the upper right from automatically disappearing like it is supposed to. There are also a number of subtle rendering bugs which are annoying. I hope a new beta will come out soon.

• Plotting a Trail - Googler John Gardiner posts about his hobby of helping plan trails. He uses topo map overlays, a GPS track and placemarks to help communicate a planned trail. See an example trail near South Yuba River in Northern California.

• Business Reviews - Google has added a new feature to Google Maps which lets you review and rate a business you find in a map search. Maps already showed ratings and reviews from other web sites, but it also now allows you to give your own reviews and ratings. Simply search for a business and choose "More Info". Then choose "Write a review". You have to be logged in to a Google account. Very simple and straight-forward. A couple of suggestions I have: Allow folks to just give it a rating without writing a review, and allow people to use anonymous as a reviewer name (but, limit them to one review per establishment).

• More Second Earth - Avi Bar-Ze’ev, former Keyhole developer of the application which became Google Earth, shares his thoughts about the recent article by MIT Technology Review called Second Earth. Avi goes into depth about the possibilities / impossibilities of Google Earth and Second Life being combined as a mashup. Definitely a worthy read if you liked the Second Earth article. Wade Roush (author of the Second Earth article) even commented he really liked Avi's article.

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June 14, 2007

Global Lightning Animation for Google Earth

Received a tip from a GEB reader about some new weather data for Google Earth. The data comes from a web site called GuiWeather.com which predominantly is focused on providing global lightning data, but also has other GE weather tools. GuiWeather hopes to help people avoid lightning strike dangers by alerting them to nearby lightning using cell phone alerts. More importantly from a GE perspective, they are sharing their global lightning data in the form of lightning time animations. The data is near real-time (less than 2 minutes old when I last checked) and the animation shows the last 30 minutes of lightning strikes world wide. Check out the global lightning time animation . I like the way they show you how to configure and play the timeslider with little "pointer hand" graphic icons overlayed on the screen. GuiWeather's site says they have a world-wide network of sferic sensors collecting the lightning data.

In addition to the lightning data, the GuiWeather site has a number of other KML files with weather data. Current temperatures for many cities in the US are color coded as well as giving temperature values. This same temperature data is also available as a Google Mapplet. I also like GuiWeather's buoy and ship weather collection.

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Google Preparing Map Visualizations for Books

Google's Michael Jones (Chief Technologist of Google Earth) gave a sneak preview presentation late last week, at the New York State Geospatial Summit, where he demonstrated some upcoming map visualizations based on books related to Google's Book Search project. Michael has many times mentioned his fascination with maps created from books (like the collection showing places quoted in Shakespeare, or the maps showing the travels of Odysseus). According to a summary by Adena Shutzberg of Directions Magazine, Michael gave a sneak preview of technology where Google has taken public books (out of copyright) and scanned the text for location information, then created a collection of placemarks for the locations mentioned in the book. You can click on a placemark and go to the page where it was mentioned. He also demonstrated a time animation map related to books. I'm looking forward to seeing the results of this project, it sounds really interesting!

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9. Weather and Storm Tracking Tools for Google Earth - June 02, 2007
10. Google StreetView Sightseeing - May 30, 2007
11. Where 2.0 - Ignite and Launchpad - May 29, 2007
12. ChartGeek - Sectional Maps for Pilots in Google Earth - May 28, 2007
13. PhotoFlyr - A Google Earth 3D Flying Photo Viewer - May 23, 2007
14. US Township and Range Land Survey Info for Google Earth - May 22, 2007
15. Watch Weekend Boating Live in Google Earth - May 18, 2007
16. Google Earth Umbrella - May 16, 2007
17. FlickrVision - And Now for Google Earth - May 15, 2007
18. Programmer Writes World's Biggest Hello World - May 14, 2007
19. Sounds Coming to Google Earth - May 10, 2007
20. News Roundup - Taj Majal in 3D, KML as Open Standard, Katrina Imagery, New AIA150 Tour - May 08, 2007
21. News Roundup 2 - Science Visualization, Netherlands GIS, Flu Map, Nokia SportsTracker - May 06, 2007
22. 3D Warehouse Map Mashup for Collections - May 04, 2007
23. "If I Go in a Straight Line Around the Earth, Where do I Pass?" - May 03, 2007
24. Globe Glider Video Demonstration - May 02, 2007
25. Super Mapping Mashup -> Globe Glider Next Generation - May 01, 2007
26. Dynamic Map Showing AIM Chatters in Google Earth - April 30, 2007
27. EarthNC Releases Browser-based Google Earth Content - April 26, 2007
28. News Roundup: Tour de France, Tasmania Logging, Somalia, GE-Sharing, More Biking - April 23, 2007
29. Useful Google Earth Graphing/Drawing Tools - April 17, 2007
30. News Roundup: My Maps/YouTube, Nokia N95, Census, Arc2Earth, Show-n-Tell - April 13, 2007
31. My Maps - New Google Maps Update Supports Google Earth Features - April 05, 2007
32. Rumor mill: Did Google Buy Vutool for Street-Level Photos? - March 28, 2007
33. Google Earth Classified Ads by Safarri - March 26, 2007
34. News Roundup - SpaceNavigator SDK, Twittervision, Lodz Poland - March 22, 2007
35. Dig a Hole Through Google Earth - March 16, 2007
36. Historic US Census Data 1790 and 1800 in Google Earth - March 14, 2007
37. US Migration Patterns in Google Earth - March 12, 2007
38. Skype + Unype = Multi-User Google Earth - March 10, 2007
39. Yahoo Pipes - What It Means for Google Earth/Maps - See Earthify - February 09, 2007
40. 3D Video Inside Google Earth - February 07, 2007
41. Google Earth Critical Tool in Fight Against Logging Plan - February 06, 2007
42. Google Earth Save Image Option - January 23, 2007
43. Sundance Film Festival Map in Google Earth - January 17, 2007
44. News Roundup - KML indexing, GPS tools, SketchUp PhotoMatch Tutorial, GE Blogs - January 13, 2007
45. Shaded Relief Map of US Terrain in Google Earth - January 12, 2007
46. Google Earth Layers - January 11, 2007
47. SketchUp 6 is Released! - January 09, 2007
48. Watch Remote Control Plane with Camera Capturing Real-time Images for Google Earth - January 05, 2007
49. Play "Mars Sucks" Game in Google Earth - December 29, 2006
50. Multilingual Wikipedia Project Linking to Google Earth - December 28, 2006
51. Top 10 Time Animations from 2006 in Google Earth - December 20, 2006
52. Top 10 New Google Earth Features of 2006 - December 18, 2006
53. Virtual Globes Sessions at AGU - Day 1 - December 13, 2006
54. NASA Goddard Publishes Huge Google Earth Time Animations - December 10, 2006
55. Shipwreck - A Historical Documentary Including 3D in Google Earth - December 08, 2006
56. Explosion of GPS mapping tools and web sites - December 07, 2006
57. Plazes.com Does Google Earth - Social Network - December 06, 2006
58. Trulia Adds Google Earth for Real Estate Searches - December 05, 2006
59. View Melting Glaciers in Google Earth - December 03, 2006
60. YouTube Demo of SpaceNavigator with Google Earth - November 28, 2006
61. Maplecroft Risk Analsysis Global Maps in Google Earth - November 22, 2006
62. Protecting Rainforests in Victoria, Australia Using Google Earth - November 21, 2006
63. New Blue Marble Add-on Version 2.0 - November 20, 2006
64. Beautiful Blue Marble and Clouds Add-on for Google Earth - November 16, 2006
65. Amazon Indians Using Google Earth to Protect Tropical Forests - November 15, 2006
66. Jupiter Clouds in Motion in Google Earth - November 12, 2006
67. CBS News Does Google Earth - November 09, 2006
68. Earth on Fire - November 04, 2006
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71. Hawaii Earthquake Data in Google Earth - October 23, 2006
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75. Watch UK Autumn Leaves Changing Colour - October 13, 2006
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79. Google Earth Enterprise in Oil and Gas Industry - October 03, 2006
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88. Interview With Michael Jones - Google Earth Chief Technology Officer - September 14, 2006
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96. Back to School - Educational Uses with Google Earth - August 29, 2006
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102. Goggles - Google Maps Flight Simulator, Also: Google Earth Flying - August 08, 2006
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160. Making Money with Google Earth - September 28, 2005
161. Watching Sports with Google Earth - September 27, 2005
162. Placeopedia Links Google Earth to WikiPedia - September 21, 2005
163. Dynamic Clock - Big Ben - September 16, 2005
164. Asteroid Occultations - September 15, 2005
165. Link Google Earth to Online Maps - September 07, 2005
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167. Real Estate Done Google Earth Style - August 29, 2005
168. New Beta Version of Google Earth - August 27, 2005
169. ABC Primetime Uses Google Earth - August 26, 2005
170. City of Portland GIS - August 25, 2005
171. EarthPlot - Commercial Software - August 23, 2005
172. First of Many Games in Beta - August 12, 2005

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