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Your modern browser can render a 3D city on Google Earth or reflective pasta using WebGL. Honestly, there is no reason why Chromium and JavaScript can't handle the UI functions shown. The most excusable reason I can think of is that they didn't put their best hardware on the practice Dragon but how good does it really have to be?
Are there any other Google sites besides http://earth.google.com (being worked on) that doesn't currently work (at all) in Firefox?
I drew it by hand after finding the spot that it should have ended, and that's pretty much the whole process. Both Bing Maps and Google Maps allow you to draw lines/shapes/pushpins on the map and then save and share them. (Bing calls it 'My Places', Google calls it 'My Maps'). Information/tutorial here - Bing's help pages are woeful and out of date, and the feature sets are pretty much the same. In both cases you do have to be logged in to a relevant account to make anything.
If you just mean the general ship-ness of the final outline, there was no shortcut or wizardry - a bit of effort, curiosity and patience.
Um...you could just do it as a scaled image overlay on Google Earth, http://earth.google.com/support/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=22373&topic=22376
Otherwise you would need to get the original vector file that was used to create the OP's image, in Mapinfo TAB or ESRI shapefile and use one of those programs to export it to google earth as polygon
Looks like html2text itself maintains some state, such that it returns different strings if you pass the same text to the same HTML2Text object more than once. Note the extra \n\n at the start of line 7 that wasn't there on line 5:
>>> import html2text >>> h = html2text.HTML2Text() >>> h.ignore_links = True >>> h.handle("<p>Hello, <a href='http://earth.google.com/'>world</a>!</p>") 'Hello, world!\n\n' >>> h.handle("<p>Hello, <a href='http://earth.google.com/'>world</a>!</p>") '\n\nHello, world!\n\n'
>Sign up is no longer required for Google Earth Pro. Click here to download Earth Pro, then sign in using your email address and the License Key GEPFREE
> no, its not a myth.
It is readily regarded within academia that it is a myth and a relatively recent one at that.
> the land of israel was arid, dry, empty and full of swamps.
Dry and full of swamps... arid and full of swamps... empty except for swamps...
As to the land being empty, you would have to be very ignorant to believe that.
> the local peoples who you name "palestinians"
No I didn't, you barely literate idiot. I referred to the geography of the area as Palestine. You have heard of Palestine, haven't you?
> [Palestinians (the people, not the land) in Palestine (the land, not the people)] were uneducated and with terrible health conditions
This was true of basically anywhere that wasn't Western or Central Europe or Canada or the USA. Still, as justifications go, it's worthless. The same argument could be made of Indonesia.
> open google maps, switch the satillete view and see how much the land is differ from it's neighbors.
You total moron. Follow your own advice. Lebanon is green. Levantine Syria is green, as is Levantine Turkey. The green areas correspond to the Levant. I'm referring here to the regions attached to the Levantine basin, not the historical territory which has been noted, not totally incidentally, since antiquity as "not the desert part of that area".
> you can see artificial green zones being shaped by israel's borderline.
You contemptible moron. Look for yourself and see that this is not true.
> you should read more about the history of the middle east.
You should stop beating the elderly for shekels.
You would need the fastest internet connection ever, and nothing would be interactive. GTA 4 is the next best thing.
Or you could just play with the Google Earth Flight Simulator:
http://earth.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=22385
Sign up is no longer required for Google Earth Pro. Click here (http://earth.google.com/intl/en/download-earth-pro.html) to download Earth Pro, then sign in using your email address and the License Key GEPFREE.
That quote about being closer than the Google Earth Satellite is way off. http://earth.google.com/geoeye/ http://www.satimagingcorp.com/satellite-sensors/geoeye-1.html
It has an altitude of 425 miles, not 16,000 miles. Nothing like being off by a factor of 40.
> Google offers high resolution imagery for thousands of cities, and more are on the way. Most of this imagery is approximately one to three years old and provides an aerial view about 800-1500 feet from the ground.
Oh, and that photo was outside the Franklin Institute.
Edit: Here is an example of a Google satellite photo, of an island in the Bahamas, at 1000 ft maximum resolution. You can't zoom in any further. By contrast, the one from Franklin Institute above lets you zoom down to 20 ft. You can add the optional distance measurement tool in your maps settings to confirm.
So, I'll agree with ProximaC here and call bullshit as well.
When you zoom in, google maps "satellite" images aren't actually taken from satellites. They're taken from planes. Only the zoomed-out images are taken by satellites.
I thought the porta-potties were between C & D this year? No idea of this map is accurate or not: http://earth.google.com/kmlpreview/#url=http%3A%2F%2Fbbs.keyhole.com%2Fubb%2Fubbthreads.php%3Fubb%3Ddownload%26Number%3D1015941
Ok sorry for the muddled responses. I'm being clear as mud, right? Okay so when I use the first method... I'm now past the connectivity errors and it's now going as far to even run the script. However, as I mentioned earlier, instead of displaying the text, it's being downloaded by the browser as a .PHP
Upon opening it, it appears to be the correctly formatted xml file. So why is it doing this? I found mention of this in an online forum of someone also having a very similar problem using this class.
*brazilbear, Right off the bat, I can help you with the .php/.kml problem. It's not a problem. Remember this is server side scripting, it's not meant to be saved as a separate KML and then loaded into GE. It's meant to be loaded via a <NetworkLink>. So you would load into GE a KML that would look something like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.2"> <NetworkLink id="Pizza"> <name>Follow Concordia</name> <visibility>1</visibility> <Link id="Pizz-URL"> <href>http://localhost/pizza/phpsql_genkml.php</href> <refreshInterval>60</refreshInterval> </Link> </NetworkLink> </kml> Then this <NetworkLink> would reach out to phpsql_genkml.php, get the KML data and load it into GE. The bottom line is the PHP doesn't have to have a .kml extension. As for your other problem I'm not sure, I have to dig around for that answer. Hopefully, ManoM has an answer. mwill *
So maybe I'm having the same problem?
> the moon is convenience
The moon lacks air, water, and food.
> the moon is unexplored
> the moon can likely support a human colony.
It certainly has adequate real estate, but a great deal of material would need to be transferred from Earth to establish such a colony.
http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_spreadsheet.html
Here's a (tutorial for, and link to a) spreadsheet built in Google Docs (by Google) which maps inputted data in Google Earth; there're some instructional videos which are quite helpful. Really the only annoying thing about it is that you have to reformat / retype all your data within the spreadsheet.
If you want to map them on Google Maps (as well as in Google Earth), you'll need to supply coordinates; Google Earth seems to handle whatever address format you throw at it. I used it for a survey I did for a class last semester, and provided only cities and states, and it was fine (and pretty awesome, too).
Arkville Maze, Arkville, NY
Gigantic Maze with sculptures of Angels and Minotaurs in it. It is in the middle of the woods, unreachable by car. Pretty scary at night.
Some Links: pics -- http://www.davidwillismccullough.com/arkville.html
Google Earth -- http://earth.google.com/kmlpreview/#url=http%3A%2F%2Fbbs.keyhole.com%2Fubb%2Fubbthreads.php%3Fubb%3Ddownload%26Number%3D802798