wwp@yahoogroups.com:
Re: Panoramas and Google Earth
G. Donald Bain 2007-Feb-20 16:13:00
Yuval,
Good points, I have also been fustrated at the poor display of "real"
panoramas on Google Earth.
First they put us down under a misleading approximation of our name
(WorldwidePanoramas-wuz, should be The World Wide Panorama).
Then the sudden appearance of this Panoramio stuff. Are any of them
panoramic? The ones I have looked at vary widely in quality and
value, and some of the subject identifications are just plain wrong.
What I would like to see is a top level category for "VR Panoramas",
which would be reserved for collections of true 360 panoramic images.
First among these would of course be our WWP. It is a perfect match
of technologies, the global view of GE and the surface view from a
panoramic node.
We in the VR community are struggling to get the world in general to
see the true brilliance of the VR panorama form. A proper
representation on Google Earth would be a great place to put our work
out for people to discover, then to lead them from their original
"discovery" to another node, to another collection, etc.
Unfortunately I have not found the time to approach Google about
this. Anyone with a special insight, let us know.
Don
On Feb 20, 2007, at 6:19 AM, yuval levy wrote:
> Panoramios: Layers => Geographic Web => Panoramio ->
> disable. Too much noise.
>
> WWP: Layers => Google Earth Community => Community
> Showcase => Worldwide Panoramas - wuz -> enable. :-)
>
> I wonder about the structure of those Layers. Maybe it
> is just me, but I don't think that Panoramio deserves
> a better positioning (second level) than most entries
> in the Google Eearth Community Showcase (third level),
> but I do not know where to input my feedback to Google
> and anyway there are more diplomatic people than me to
> convey such a touchy message.
>
> I'd love to see WWP, WHTour, WW2Panoramas and other
> consistent collection with a thread/topic to them
> listed in the Geographic Web.
>
> And I'd love to see the work of individual VR artists
> as well as the generic collections as individual
> layers in the Community Showcase.
>
> All with the same, relevant icon symbolizing a VR and
> with a small modifier on the right bottom of it
> classifying to which collection it belongs.