Nice - Even if the geometry is not perfect, like you say it's a good
start. I'm sure there will eventually - or probably is - other web sites
this tool could be useful. Thanks for sharing!
-=mb.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
Behalf
> Of Andy Jones
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 4:24 PM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: *SPAM *Re: public domain or inexpensive south manhattan 3D
model
>
> I've successfully pulled sections of Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The
> meshes you get aren't perfect (some vertices are connected weirdly and
> such, but it's a pretty effective way to get some geometry in there
that
> has the correct layout. I should also mention it comes in pieces due
to
> Google Earth's dynamic loading of mesh data. You just get whatever GE
> was showing when you hit "capture."
>
> -Andy
>
> Michaël Bentitou wrote:
>
> >A little while back Andy Jones from this list posted this link:
> >
> >http://ogle.eyebeamresearch.org/
> >
> >It seems you can grab anything that's using OGL, so in theory you
could
> >grab google-earth south manhattan, save it as an .obj and bring it
into
> >XSI.
> >
> >Personally I've installed the necessary software but hardly had the
> >chance to test it - work keeps getting in the way ;-)
> >
> >It would be pretty cool if it worked.
> >
> >Andy, have you had the chance to test it?
> >
> >-=mb.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> >>
> >>
> >Behalf
> >
> >
> >>Of Eric Deren
> >>Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 3:00 PM
> >>To: xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> >>Subject: public domain or inexpensive south manhattan 3D model
> >>
> >>
> >>Has anyone seen such a beast? Not looking for tremendous detail,
just
> >>google-earth detail-level placement of buildings and such.
> >>Obviously, the more detail the better, to a point, but we're not
doing
> >>"Day After Tomorrow" so I don't need terabytes of LIDAR data. :-)
> >>
> >>If anyone has such a thing lying around that they'd be willing to
> >>
> >>
> >donate
> >
> >
> >>or sell, that would be fantastic! Thanks!
> >>
> >>-Eric
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