Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth (ExtremeTech)

Chapter 15: Introducing Google Earth FIGURE15-1: The basic interface. The interface is divided into three panels. The panel on t ...

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The longitude/latitude of the current center point of the map (called the Pointer).
The eleva ...

Chapter 15 — Introducing Google Earth 297 FIGURE15-3: Almost there. FIGURE15-4: The Google Campus. ...

298 Part IV — Google Earth Hacks At no time are areas of the map missing while Google Earth loads the satellite image data. Inst ...

Chapter 15 — Introducing Google Earth 299 FIGURE15-5: Seattle. FIGURE15-6: Crime statistics in Seattle. ...

300 Part IV — Google Earth Hacks Each icon is an example of a data point, the equivalent of the GMarkerobject used in the Google ...

Chapter 15 — Introducing Google Earth 301 FIGURE15-8: Roads in Google Earth. Just as with Google Local, you can determine a rout ...

302 Part IV — Google Earth Hacks FIGURE15-9: Ambleside to Whitehaven in Google Earth. The result is dramatic. You can see the al ...

Chapter 15 — Introducing Google Earth 303 FIGURE15-10: Ambleside to Whitehaven with altitude. FIGURE15-11: Sorrento and mountain ...

304 Part IV — Google Earth Hacks Buildings The geological aspects of Google Earth are of course important, but man has had a sig ...

Chapter 15 — Introducing Google Earth 305 The format of the data is not very difficult to understand or generate. Many of the pr ...

306 Part IV — Google Earth Hacks <Placemark> <name>Ben Nevis, UK</name> <visibility>0</visibility> ...

Chapter 15 — Introducing Google Earth 307 Within a folder, you add placemarks, and these are composed of further elements and de ...

308 Part IV — Google Earth Hacks Wrapping Up The Google Earth application provides a different environment for viewing the Googl ...

Generating Google Earth Feeds W ith Google Maps, the JavaScript language and Google Maps object environment were required to bui ...

310 Part IV — Google Earth Hacks Generating KML from Existing Data. To demonstrate how easy it is to create a KML document with ...

Chapter 16: Generating Google Earth Feeds my $sth = $dbh->prepare(sprintf(‘select * from ch10 order by type’)); $sth->exec ...

312 Part IV — Google Earth Hacks The code for this chapter (and all chapters of the book) is available on the web site that acco ...

Chapter 16 — Generating Google Earth Feeds 313 ... Travel Quest 8-9 Westgate,Grantham, NG31 6LT, United ; Kingdom -0.643614, ...

314 Part IV — Google Earth Hacks FIGURE16-1: Opening the Chapter 11 KML information. FIGURE16-2: Selecting folders for display. ...