setting eye elevation in Google Earth?

[William Premerlani]

Team,

I have been testing the helical controls branch with my EasyStar2. Performance is better than I had even hoped.

Now I want to take some screen shots, but I cannot seem to get the ones I want because I have not yet figured out how to control eye elevation in Google Earth. I have tried several things, have done a Google search, but the technique for setting it still eludes me. Do any of you have a sure fire way to zoom in on a flight track?

I would suspect that Peter knows, but I think he is on vacation.

Best regards,

Bill

[Tom Pittenger]

Have you tried right-mouse click and drag and also center scroll wheel press and drag?

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[Mark Whitehorn]

On Linux, I use the scrollwheel on the mouse to zoom in/out. The slider on the right labeled +/- functions in the same way.

And as I "zoom" the "eye alt" displayed at the lower right corner changes.

73, Mark

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[William Premerlani]

Hi Mark and Tom,

Thanks for your replies.

I have tried all of those techniques, they will indeed change the "eye alt", as long as I am not trying to view directly from the side of the flight path. What I am trying to do is to view the plane icon from the side, in the same horizontal plane as the track, where the performance of the controls during a 180 degree roll is evident.

Here is what happens in Google Earth:

I adjust the tilt of the view so that I am looking parallel to the earth surface. At that point I would like to "climb up" to the flight track to look at it, but no matter what I do, as long as the earth surface is horizontal, the eye altitude is locked to the earth surface.

I can change the eye altitude through a combination of mouse operations, but only if I change the tilt first. But then when I change the tilt back to get a look from the side of the track in the same horizontal plane, the eye altitude changes in a way that I cannot predict, and I wind up being either too high or too low to get a close up view of the track.

With everything that I have tried I either cannot get very close to the track, or I cannot get in the same horizontal plane, I have to look either up or down.

So, here is what I would like to do:

1. Set the tilt so that I am looking parallel to the earth surface.

2. Adjust the eye altitude until it is equal to the altitude of the track.

I looked on line, this apparently is a common question with multiple replies on how to do it, none of which work for me. Most of them are hacks of one sort or another.

Best regards,

Bill

[William Premerlani]

Mark and Tom,

After looking online at the suggestions for setting eye elevation, I think I figured out the basics of how to do it.

I think you have to create a placemark with the desired altitude, and then make it the center of the view.

The rest of the details of the procedure were not clear, but I think eventually I will figure it out.

Best regards,

Bill

[Mark Whitehorn]

More like this? I'm just using the mouse to adjust the viewpoint.

[Mark Whitehorn]

But I agree, it seems impossible to get the camera axis parallel to the ground.

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[William Premerlani]

Mark,

Yes, that is exactly what I am trying to do, except I cannot get as close as I would like using the mouse. I wind up with an eye elevation much higher or lower than I want it to be. I would be satisfied getting as close as you got in your last email, but it seems that I am not as skilled with the mouse as you are.

Best regards,

Bill

[Mark Whitehorn]

Bill,

I just found that "Shift + left mouse button + drag down" lets me get closer to the horizontal: https://support.google.com/earth/answer/148115?hl=en

[William Premerlani]

Mark,

Thank you so much for tracking this down, I appreciate it.

Best regards,

Bill