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Re: Google Earth / WWP - a follow-up
Caroling Geary 2006-Jul-09 14:02:00
Hi, I'm trying to follow these directions. Are they still valid for
Google 4.01 beta on Mac? I remember getting a camera before but now
can't remember how to do it. I don't see a camera or a way to get one
from the menus. Search Google Earth User Guide help and it finds no
"camera".
Every time I just create a placemark, I get the "precision: Unknown"
message.
Any clues?
On Jan 11, 2006, at 7:36 AM, Markus Altendorff wrote:
>
> On Mi, 11.01.2006, 12:53, Caroling Geary said:
>> Placemark precision: Unknown. Legacy data, may or may not be
>> correct.]]></description>
>
> A procedure that works fine is the one i've outlined in the "how to
> use the new
> Google Earth placemark processor" pop-up help box on Equinox ;) and
> which i'm
> copying below:
>
> 1) Open the Google Earth application
> 2) Move the view to your panorama's location.
> 3) Move the camera to your desired view (thus defining the heading/
> tilt/range
> values). Keep your intended location in the center of the window,
> as well as
> possible.
> 4) Add a new placemark (Ctrl-N on Windows).
> 5) Move the placemark to the location.
> 6) Right-click on the placemark, select "Copy" from the pop-up menu.
>
> (in wwp306, coming March, you can "Paste" that placemark into a
> textbox and have the
> prep. server read the values straight from that :)
>
> What you've got at this point (after step <6>) is a few lines of
> XML text in the
> clipboard which contain the camera position and the placemark
> position.
>
> Maybe we could set up some mail address for you to send this
> corrected position data
> to, and you'd just have to write a mail like
> "My new placemark for wwp1234"
> (paste clipboard here)
>
> "and for wwp5678"
> (paste another placemark here)
>
> and so on. Also, precision can be "high", "medium" and "low" - and
> "suppressed" for
> those panoramas/objects made in "Artistica" (hey, that'd actually
> make a fun name
> for an "out of this world" region... ;)
Caroling Geary, www.wholeo.net