>(quote from the introduction to The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan's outstanding television series)
-- never had a chance to watch, sorry. But yes, sounds quite KGB-esque to my Russian ear.
>No need to reverse engineer Google Earth to get answers to your questions.
-- so? Anybody working on it already? Can I have his/her email, to discuss some setails?
>Here you are:
>>I would like to ask GE developers to add capability to handle URLs/IP addresses in GE's address input form. It cannot be that difficult, but the effect can be huge.
>Interesting idea. It has been shown to work "ok" for wireless hotspots, fine for domain names and static IP's given the necessary mapping databases, but it performs less wellfor personal IP connections as they tend to be aggregated behind cable, phone, and other ISP hubs. Still, a good idea that has entertained many who visit the lobby at the Google campus.
--never had a chance to visit, sorry. Maybe, later, with some substantial progress in building Googler/GoogleOS being guaranteed... Or, when my localization remarks would be followed, at last. Whatever comes first. As for start/end points of such flights, yes, these might be some positional, or even 'ballpark' approximations for hubs, firewalls, clusters (and monster Google server farms). Google Earth centers my home address on the gates 100 feet away from my property, so what? Like I said, Google Earth Pro might have the capability to trace through redirectors/clickthroughs and pinpoint the cybercriminal, but the ordinary user might be satisfied to fly from some area (and not point) to another area, so the georesolution of a URL could be made in "real" time of a scenic flight.
>>Also, are there any explicit key mappings for GE navigational controls? I would like to try flights in GE with some high-end Saitek joystick.
>There are key/mouse bindings for most navigation-related controls. Check thr documentation (Help|Contents) or search this forum for key bindings. The binding set is not however complete enough to access the full range of the UI (such as to select a particular placemark) in the present version. Your suggestion is noted as a request for enhancement.
-- good, very good, indeed! Yes, clicks on placemarks (including just plain bookmarks/links found elsewhere should be mapped into trigger/thumb weapon buttons.
--As for DD layers, while on Web browsing in GE, can the tracert trace be drawn, to fly over it? Some roadside AdSense ads might be quite in place in this ambience.
>Since there is no IP-geocoding at present (your first suggestion) there is also no "multi-hop trace route IP list => geocoded location list => KML path that can be flown in Google Earth" feature either. Nice idea though. (Again, you would *really* enjoy a visit to the Google lobby.)
-- lol! are you what? inviting? I might even show up one day, I live quite close (SJ)
Good suggestions for Internet packet/routing/destination visualization. It sounds like what Kenneth Cox, Stephen G. Eick, and Taosong He were imagining in their respected 1996 SIGMOD paper, 3D Geographic Network Displays. It is certainly within the design intent of Google Earth to provide context for indirectly spatial data, like, where is that backbone hub by IP, where is that parcel by tracking number, where is that plane by flight number, etc.)
--It is very nice to meet somebody who thinks in parallel and similar plane. Never read that SIGMOD paper though, and couldn't download it right now, as I'm not a member. But what you're saying is more for Google Earth (I'd prefer 'Googler') Pro edition for netadmins.
Hopefully this is detailed enough to save you from a decade of reverse engineering a rapidly evolving target.
--Decade? Phrrrt... a week or two maybe (just from my recent experience with some UK disassembler of GWA). But yes, it can take much more time when porting the whole thing to Linux. Which is the true target.
As per yet, if we go 'feature request' way, I would also love to see GE's sidebar and bottombar hideable, plus Web pages opening in 1/2 to 1/5 size, similar to Browster previews
Can someone email me, seer? or ink-polaroid? or whoever might have some more questions? it's aludal at gmail dot com, come on!
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