Jumble
Master Guide
Reged: 04/20/03
Posts: 4058
Loc: Philadelphia, PA
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smcq , "Sketchup" seems very cozy with GE! Click Here for a clue.
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There are none so blind......
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jakedundee7
Tourist
Reged: 08/14/05
Posts: 21
Loc: Dundee Scotland Moscow
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Well spotted Jumble! I was wondering what the cosyness of this was. Another clique of wannabees. I give themTextured buildings and animations in Google Earth and they side up to bland polys and lines?? What gives? VRML rocks and has always done so, but the big boys want their bucks and dumbo`s to tow the line of ignorance.
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tonylaw
Tourist
Reged: 10/05/05
Posts: 5
Loc: Midlands UK
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3D is cool but I wonder when that laser kit the police use to scan a crime scene will be in the shops. I love 3D models but it always seems a bit long winded getting all those polys into the computer. If something dosn't exist yes you need to create it, but these buildings are already there.
Give me a hand-held scanner, like the ones they use to read bar codes, give your local buildings a quick swipe down and bingo, fly down the street in Google Earth. Even fit it with a texture and bumpmap scanner so it makes everything look real. Ow yes, and give us all computers with cell chips to comput all the information.
Wishful thinking I know. 
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betyps
First Post
Reged: 12/17/05
Posts: 1
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i have question i have just downloaded this program, but it wont let me see the planet earth, its only a bunch of stars, and i click where it says places and then i little window pops out and says "enable the google earth community" but how do i do that?
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Downloader5002
Collection Editor
Reged: 10/16/05
Posts: 292
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How's about textures? Predefined textures ike brick glass concrete or plastic walls? Predefined common objects like cars, traffic lights, subway trains and f.e. Boeing767 or Cesna? Moving objects macros like cars to emulate traffic? Or even to create bus and light rail networks or domestic plane flights? Or my way from home to work macro with automaticaly stop at red lights or stop signs?
Of course with the ability to switch on/off these layers 
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Edited by Downloader5002 (12/18/05 05:11 AM)
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loupiote
Tourist
Reged: 01/11/06
Posts: 106
Loc: san francisco, ca
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3D google earth is really cool in general.
But some of the buildings need to be improved a bit.
For example, the famous transamerica pyramid of san francisco does not look much like a pyramid!
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=109174
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crasstopher
Tourist
Reged: 01/24/06
Posts: 8
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This is all incumbent upon attentive creative people to edit such discrepancies so that GE may become an open source geographical resource (Wikpedia - GIS?). I think people relate to things geospatialy in a 3D environment so easily. The potential is incredible.
Anyway I would like to see some examples of 3D objects, structures, made through the SketchUp plugin. SketchUp seems to be a great program but still pricey for the nonprofessional designer. Do you just export or Save As... a SketchUp drawing as a *.KMZ placemark?
I'd like to know more from people who are doing these sorts of things. Or even ESRI shapefile projection?!?
This is the future 
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land_dreamer
Tourist
Reged: 02/24/06
Posts: 3
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Hi, I'm glad to see what seems like quite an awesome tool evolving here.
I'm doing some 3D modelling with Sketchup for some landscape design and was hoping to be able to import from GE to Sketchup not only the terrain and ground image but also the buildings (3D) for use in site context/perspectives. Is this possible? Granted, perhaps the building data is proprietary or something, I don't know.
I'm also curious where GE got the data for the building models and footprints, etc. Or perhaps it is up to outsiders to post this data for various locations?
OK, enough questions. Thanks much for any response to this (esp. exporting buildings).
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MacMedic
Tourist
Reged: 07/31/06
Posts: 2
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Ok, so I made a beautiful rendering of my home in Sketchup, posted it into Google earth on it's site, with the exception of the extremely low res satellite view of my town, all looks great.
Now, is there a way to share this with the world, so others browsing through my little town will see this model?
With all these great simple to use tools, I thought this part would be obvious, but I'm not seeing it.
Thanks!
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seer
Master Chronicler
Reged: 12/09/02
Posts: 3106
Loc: Northern California
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Upload it to the 3dWarehouse.
While you are there, have a look around...
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