The Edware on the Web Elevation Server is the talk around the proverbial water cooler this week. We are testing the software, and based on feedback from our reviewers, we are really excited about the possibilities. Yesterday, while talking to a reviewer about the future of EdWare ES, the topic of visualization of EdWare imagery in Google Earth came up. In past posts we talked about using the Edware ES to brand web maps...yesterday's conversation reminded us that the output from elevation server can be brought in to brand a Google Earth project as well.
As we all already know Google Earth is a powerful visualization software application. The top image – of the Grand Canyon – is a screen shot taken straight from Google Earth. In my opinion, the shadowing in the foreground (southeast corner) of the image provides a compelling view of the canyon. Obviously the tiles in the foreground were captured when the sensor on the satellite was at some angle past nadir. While informational, the first image lacks continuity and clarity. I would go so far as to say that the tiles form a dissonant patchwork of imagery.
The second image (below) was developed by the EdWareontheWeb Elevation Server; the KMZ was then imported into Google Earth (the kmz for this file can be accessed from this link). Besides providing a clean, consistent base layer I think the addition of the EdWare Elevation Server imagery gives me a better idea of what the landscape actually looks like.
Thursday, June 30. 2011
The Power of Custom Imagery
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