[Therion] Cave Overlays on Google Maps Web Sites

[Philip Schuchardt]

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 at 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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