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I can see a long range of mountains from my 2nd floor windows. I want to drop down to approximately the same position and elevation (from my 2nd floor window) and take in the same view on Google Earth. The intent is to identify mountain peaks that I can not determine in real life.
Google earth limits the angle one can tilt while the POV is close to the ground.
"Google Chrome is required to run the new Google Earth. Please try this link in Chrome." Get fucked. Embrace, extend, and extinguish. It's ActiveX all over again. PS: I have a 4 Ghz, quad core, i7-6700K CPU, 64GB RAM, 250Mbps internet and this is both poorly working to the point of being impossible to use, and bringing my computer to a halt.
still an annoying aspect of Google Earth - I can see a long range of mountains from my 2nd floor windows. I want to drop down to approximately the same position and elevation (from my 2nd floor window) and take in the same view on Google Earth. The intent is to identify mountain peaks that I can not determine in real life. Google earth limits the angle one can tilt while the POV is close to the ground.
http://www.udeuschle.selfhost.pro/panoramas/makepanoramas_en...
Edit: It generates panoramas with mountains and hills labelled .
Google Chrome is required. Nope.
The requested URL /static/9.0.31.6/balloon/balloon.html was not found on this server. That’s all we know.
Great...
Edit: after some F5-ing got it working. The 3D view is great! And I wonder why maps should be so slow. This feels much faster.
Edit2: I keep getting the 404 error every time. Looks like something is still wrong.
Off-topic from the update, but sometime in the past 2 years the quality of their universal photogrammetry became jaw-dropping.
Looks like the Google Earth Flight Simulator[0] didn't make the cut. Many features are missing from the original desktop app and it's not immediately clear what this offers over using "Earth" within Google Maps. The "auto-rotate around the landmark" feature is also a pain for people who are used to maps being north-facing by default. [0] https://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/google-earth-eas...
It seems this is the Google way. They kill one product (especially a desktop product) and it takes years till the new one is on every feature on the same level as the old one... look at Picasa vs. Google Photos. Even today Picasa can do many more things that Google Photos cannot do today. I'm sure the native/old Google Earth has a ton of stuff which is not ported to the web version. Good they cannot convert Chrome it…
still an annoying aspect of Google Earth - I can see a long range of mountains from my 2nd floor windows. I want to drop down to approximately the same position and elevation (from my 2nd floor window) and take in the same view on Google Earth. The intent is to identify mountain peaks that I can not determine in real life. Google earth limits the angle one can tilt while the POV is close to the ground.
Have you tried this site? http://www.udeuschle.selfhost.pro/panoramas/makepanoramas_en... Edit: It generates panoramas with mountains and hills labelled .
Yes this is precisely the perspective I want to view on Google Map, with the added benefit of being able to double click on a distant peak and fly right to it, or perhaps also a feature to return to previous position so one can easily toggle between points of interests
still an annoying aspect of Google Earth - I can see a long range of mountains from my 2nd floor windows. I want to drop down to approximately the same position and elevation (from my 2nd floor window) and take in the same view on Google Earth. The intent is to identify mountain peaks that I can not determine in real life. Google earth limits the angle one can tilt while the POV is close to the ground.