[Freegis-list] Virtual Reality and Google

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Am Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2007 15:52:02 schrieb Markus Neteler:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:29:51PM +0200, lists at feilner-it.net wrote:
> > Hello List,
> > As an editor at german linux magazin I am currently writing on an article
> > about virtual reality and google earth.
> > Although I have found some tools, none of them seem to be able to replace
> > google's sketchup for generating kml or kmz files. Blender can import
> > these files and edit .dae models, but this is not working properly.
> > 3DGeoexplorer is a commercial produkt (they generated virtual berlin in
> > google earth, this is nice!)
> > Both sketchup and 3DGeo are not available for Linux.
> >
> > Does anyone on this list know free Linux tools for 3D Modelling in google
> > earth? Thank you in advance!
>
> With GRASS 6.3 (not yet officially released but snapshots are available)
> you can elaborate 3D data and export to KML.
>
> For example, you can take a 3D drawing (DXF), import with v.in.dxf,
> geocode with v.transform and export to KML with v.out.ogr as 3D
> object. Note that the KML support in OGR is still somewhat limited but
> I managed to export 3D buildings.
>
> Additionally, if needed:
> - reproject to LatLong with v.proj
> - extrude 2D building footprints to 3D blocks with v.extrude
> - drape 2D vectors over DEM with v.drape
>
> Not really helpful maybe, but giving an idea,
> Markus
>
> PS: Works on MS-Windows/MacOSX, too :)
>
>
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> ITC -> dall'1 marzo 2007 Fondazione Bruno Kessler
> ITC -> since 1 March 2007 Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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Hello Markus,
Thank you very much!
Can you imagine writing an article on this topic? Or do you know somebody who 
could and has time?
:-)

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