off topic: earth.google.com

[Rick Levine]

You get a lot more functionality when you pay the subscription fee.  We did
for Keyhole, but have not yet done so for Google earth.

Rick

UMN MapServer Users List <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU> wrote on
07/22/2005 10:44:49 AM:

> Norman,
>
>   Good points.  It really is just a simple geographic data viewer, but
it's
> the usability in that context that is impressive.
>
> And here's the Top Ten Things I DON'T Like about Google Earth (but then I
> haven't done much digging):
>
> 1. No direct support for WMS (and WFS, etc)
> 2. No map scale, no arrow pointer for mouse (which finger does that
lat/lon
> reference?)
> 3. Rough vectors outside of U.S.
> 4. Thin API
> 5. No spec on Horizontal or Vertical datums
> 6. No transparency setting (e.g. white is transparent) on Network Link
> raster data sources
> 7. Streaming server (Keyhole) is proprietary
> 8. No ability to add your own DEM (without Keyhole server)
> 9. No min/max scale setting for layers (?)
> 10. Local images require manual warping (no support for Geotiff tags etc)
>
> On the other hand Google Earth could serve as a functionality to-do list
for
> osgPlanet:
>
> http://www.ossim.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=3
>
> Brent
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Norman Barker" <nbarker at RSINC.COM>
> To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 9:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] off topic: earth.google.com
>
> <snip>
>
> Everyone is saying it is amazing, and I like it, it is fun.  But you
can't
> really
> do that much with the KWL service provider interface, and the streaming
> technology
> is proprietary.
>
> When they release an API so that I can change the visual appearance of
> controls, add
> my own gui panels, add processing functionality, then I will be really
> impressed!!
>
> Norman