Google Earth Maps Street View
Prisc Chandola
We have not yet enabled the ability to turn on street view inside ArcGIS Earth. The following blog tells you how it might be possible but note that to make it happen, it requires a small bit of coding... you have to pass back HTML and Google services no longer do so:
Thank you Chris. I guess I misunderstood. I thought Google Earth was going away as the API is no longer supported and ArcEarth was going to be the complete solution replacement. Seems like maybe this won't happen soon, so maybe we can request the ability for this and the Bing Streetside view. It would be truly nice to have the ability to view Bing streetside veiw, Google street-view and crowd-shared imagery with location information from a single point of access within ArcEarth. Please let this serve a request for this functionality to be added to ArcEarth. Thanks much for your reply, I look forward to seeing what ArcEarth becomes in the future. For now though, I'm going to share this with my Engineering Department that if they need/want the street views, they'll need to stick with Google or Bing for now. Thanks so much Chris, I remain grateful.
On the right side of the map you could view more data on your maps like labels, streetview, earthquakes, photos by Flickr and news on the map by Reuters.
It was great explorer tool with the red icons for cafes, museums, shoping and more type of places. You could zoom in to a place and select an icon. The maps would display all type of places in the area. Clicking on one of the places and you will get more information about it. You can still try The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Google Places is used to display the places information.
Is it possible to show the marker in street view? (smth like shown here, but it is in web -overlays) The KML file is created in FME program and imported into google earth(current version 7.1.2.2041). The marker are shown in google maps but not in street view. Actually, it doesn't matter whether marker or pin or smth else. It is only important to recognize the desired position.
Alexito, I have the same version of Google Earth as you, but I don't think Google Earth is the problem. I think the problem lies in the database imagery that is queried when you use Google Earth or Google Maps using a web browser. I have Firefox v31.2 & experience the same problem & noticed that this problem also started when Google Maps changed its UI to be more tablet friendly. This change must have occurred fairly recently.
Google Maps in Internet Explorer 8 DOES show the marker on street view & uses the good old UI that we've all grown to love & depend on. I wonder if you use IE9 or higher the Google Maps UI will change to the new version & you'll lose the marker on street view. Just another reason why I refuse to upgrade IE.
EXAMPLE OF WHY THE MARKER IS SO IMPORTANT: I was invited to a housewarming party & I was given the address. When I zoomed to street view, no marker. I found that the image wasn't even focused on the right house so I had to rotate the view until I found the house...by reading the address that was affixed to the wall of the house! And NO MARKER!
Hello, I want to show my google earth paths over a map (not bothered whether it's a google, bing or other map really). I need it for navigation/wayfinding over an area 5 by 5 km and google earth's standard satelite imagery hasn't got enough road names and numbers displayed, or shows names of minor roads and not the main ones. I've downloaded four different overlays and they all show maps very nicely. However, when I activate any of them, my pins remain displayed correctly on the map, but it seems my paths are obscured by the overlay. Any ideas on how oto show paths over the overlay? I can upload a print screen to explain my problem if necessary. Thanks for any help.
Increasingly, I am being asked to place building rendering in Google Street View images to determine visibility of the project. I am given very little information on existing or proposed grade, I will get a spot elevation for finish floor but that is about it.
I then try and determine elevations from the Street View image based on the elevation indications in Google Earth. From there I try and match my field of view as best I can by modeling some of the curbs seen in the satellite images.
One of the things I want to look into is determining the lat & long of the Google car when the image was taken and see if the Civil might be able to provide me with lat & long of the proposed project. That would be a start.
I usually tell people that the in the time it takes for me to put the building the the street view (which I'll be billing them for) they can fly me first class to the location, put me in a 5-star hotel, expense my meal at the best restaurant in town, and let me take my own way more accurate and high res photographs of the location.
For me, the best practice is to not do it at all. It's a lot of effort for very little in return. Most of the time it's far easier if you grab a Google Earth map, draw quick outlines of the surrounding buildings, extrude them to rough heights, and then place your new building in there.
I sometimes use Google streetview to get basic data on an extended site. I just screencap/paste into Photoshop and correct the perspective. I agree that it would be better to just go shoot it myself, but often don't have the time.
Besides all the legality involved, you need to consider that those pictures are taken with a very wide angle lens, then they are stitched and adjusted to fit their virtual 3D environment, after all this process the exactitude of those image is very limited, the barrel distortion alone can trow off several feet away of the real dimension.
You can use SketchUp (but maybe not after Google sold it) to add your model to the Google Earth database. There's a tool in the Google maps interface, also. That's an option for seeing a proposal within the scene, but visual navigation is limited.
I good way of scaling photos is to use car parking spaces which are all usually a very standard size (2.5x5m in the UK) and from that you could establish a scaled plan in order to model the buildings relatively accurately, using maybe a few front building textures taken from street view. Once you have modelled the immediately surroundings and the new building you could then move your camera to match the existing building locations in the street view. This is probably as accurate as you can be. But definitely you need to be stating a disclaimer in your contract that the views are approximate only and not 'verified views'.
Generally you can get a rough but usually good enough idea of context by navigating around a site in street view. Generalize it as much as possible, keeping priority only on the biggest features of context such as neighboring buildings, roads, sidewalks etc.
The hundreds of historical maps in the Google Earth Rumsey Historical Maps layer have been selected by David Rumsey from his collection of more than 150,000 historical maps; in addition, there are a few maps from collections with which he collaborates. These maps may be viewed in Google Earth (requires downloading the app) with our KML links in My Places or in the Gallery layer of Google Earth, Rumsey Historical Maps layer, or directly in the no download Google Earth Browser. A limited group can also be seen in the Google Maps viewer on this website.
All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods (1680 to 1930), scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe.
Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while others (generally earlier period maps) reveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time and therefore have to be more distorted to fit properly in Google Maps and Earth. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency.
The original historical maps are first made into digital images by scanning them with high resolution digital cameras. Then these digital images are transformed in a process called georeferencing, which makes them display in their correct geographical spaces in Google Maps and Earth. Georeferencing is done using a GIS program, which takes points on the old maps (cities, coast lines, rivers, streets) and connects them to the same points on a modern satellite map image or a modern street map or a modern map showing boundaries of countries and states. The GIS program then takes all these points (as many as 200 are made for very large maps) and uses them to recreate the digital image so it will fit into its modern geographical space. Often the image has to be curved a bit for this to be accomplished.
Curious to know the exact date when Google cameras captured those aerial and street view photographs of your home (or any other address) on our beautiful planet? Well, you can find the dates easily both in Google Maps and Google Earth.
Launch the Google Earth app on your desktop, search for any location in the sidebar and, this is important, zoom in an area as much as possible. Now hover your mouse over the map and you should see the capture date of that satellite image in the status bar as seen in the above screenshot.
If you happen to live in a country where Google Street View is available, you can use the Google Maps website itself to determine the date when Google Street Views cars were in your area capturing pictures of the neighbourhood.
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