Also you can not go under the surface of Google Earth, for obvious usability reasons. On Thursday 01 February 2007 8:24 am, Stacho Mudrak wrote:
Quoting Julian Todd <julian@goatchurch.org.uk>:
This file has Z-coordinates. In googleearth it's still treated as flat. I was hoping that I'd get something rendered in 3D but underneath the terrain, which I could see above the flat terrain if I turned the 3D terrain off. This doesn't happen. Has this been investigated?
Yes. Google Earth is able to render also absolute Z coordinate (just one flag can be added to the coord spec), but then you are not able to see caves, when terrain is turned on.
Getting our 3D surveys rendered into the googleearth seamlessly (so we can throw away all our current viewers with their funny controls and ridiculous content-starved binary 3D formats) is something worth aspiring to. However, the land will tend to obscure the caves.
All we need is "terrain transparency" slider in Google Earth :)
S.
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