Tag Archives: GIS

WMS in Google Earth.

I have thought there is something very interesting maybe you guys have never tried… using your Google Earth sesssion not just for navigating, finding your house or the place you are going on holidays to… If you use the WMS protocol to show your map over your 3D scenario you are going to add aContinue reading “WMS in Google Earth.”

Georreferenced pictures. Geovisualization live!

You find a picture you like and convert it to 3D in a few steps: Step1: Find a picture you like: Step2: Now Open your Google Earth and go to Tools/Add/Photo:   Step3: You have it with the same perspective… you can even navigate inside the picture… This is just within a 3D model, now imagine ifContinue reading “Georreferenced pictures. Geovisualization live!”

Modelling Madrid 3D. Geovisualization live!

And now, Let’s start with a 3D model… this is not very simple thou… First of all we have a flat /2D scenary at GE, no much more than 50 cm of resolution. The place is very close to Madrid downtown, a very big neighborhood called Moratalaz…we will find there two very big towers ofContinue reading “Modelling Madrid 3D. Geovisualization live!”

Modeling from scratch. Geovisualization live!

This is what we first have, a low resolution image taken from Google Earth (GE) visualization engine. This area is a small town within La Rioja, NE of Spain, about 300 km from Madrid. The town is called Muro en Cameros. First of all we have to find a better resolution imagen beacouse is absolutelyContinue reading “Modeling from scratch. Geovisualization live!”

Madrid 3D Virtual Scenario. Geovisualization live!

I used Skyline Software visualization engine to build this scenario. An orthoimage 0,5m resolution and a 30m resolution heights dataset. I found a few models on the internet (creative commons licesed, just for visualization purposes) I modelled a few of them by myself…and I placed them with Terra Explorer Pro. I connected it to aContinue reading “Madrid 3D Virtual Scenario. Geovisualization live!”