Mixing Google Earth Plugin with Krpano Virtual Tours

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Pentimo

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Posts: 37

Location: Dubai

Friday, July 9th 2010, 1:24am

Mixing Google Earth Plugin with Krpano Virtual Tours

Hi,

We have try to mix the Google Earth Browser plugin with Virtual tours and panorama photos.
A first beta version is working now.
Please write Your suggestion about speed, or animation...
(please don't use double click at marker (red sphere) on map.. still not disabled. just one click!)

http://360emirates.com

Thanks.

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mindlessboss

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Posts: 1,082

Location: Russia, Kaliningrad

Friday, July 9th 2010, 5:23am

Nice shoots! *thumbup*

beautiful

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VN2009

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Posts: 1,336

Location: Duluth MN

Friday, July 9th 2010, 3:25pm

i really like the interface. i question forcing users to install google earth to see anything. the presentation is worth it but some people may not be willing to do so.

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Pentimo

Beginner

Posts: 37

Location: Dubai

Friday, July 9th 2010, 4:54pm

... yes, you have to install the Google Earth plugin, (if not installed yet ;-)

) .. but we hope the curiosity will win *smile*

and of course in the final version the user can select between Google Earth interface and ordinary Google map layer *unsure*

We will try to show to users why use Google Earth plugin. (more realistic, 3D building ... )

Thanks.
Pentimo

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Castillonis

Trainee

Posts: 119

Location: Portland, Oregon

Thursday, July 15th 2010, 11:12pm

Is there a way to return to the Google Earth browser object once you have entered a 360 pano without pressing the back button in the browser? I am a big fan of the Google Earth plugin. It is much more likely to be adopted as a plugin for browsers.

The Burj Dubai is amazing. Have you attempted any aerial 360 panos of the hotels on the water? I would love to photograph an aerial tour of the newer Singapore hotel with the elevated deck and cantilever.

Like the integration of facebook. I am getting many requests for social media integration. At least the facebook API remains consistent compared to the Twitter API with depracated functions.

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Pentimo

Beginner

Posts: 37

Location: Dubai

Thursday, August 12th 2010, 10:31pm

Thanks. You can change the view at the right top corner's buttons. Switch PANO or EARTH. Now you can browse without earth plugin between panoramas, and we made a little demonstration video for helping usage. Plain Google map function comes later...

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milotimbol

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Posts: 242

Location: Philippines

Occupation: Software Developer

Thursday, August 26th 2010, 3:39pm

I LOVE YOUR WEBSITE!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you use CMS? drupal, joomla, wordress? I tried searching for these words in your source but cant find them

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Pentimo

Beginner

Posts: 37

Location: Dubai

Friday, August 27th 2010, 3:07pm

Thanks !!!
No, We don't use CMS. We use PHP,MySql,Javascript, .... so, like a 'normal' site.
(... still beta with many bugs)

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rbackhaus

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Location: connecticut usa

Tuesday, September 7th 2010, 7:06pm

Pentimo

Very nice pics, site, and simple interface,..............if you don't mind, what did you use to create the hit counter plugin?

Rob

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Run

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Posts: 41

Location: maryland. USA

Occupation: Photographer

Wednesday, September 8th 2010, 9:36am

This is a great site, compelling, interactive and well laid out. Images are top notch as well.

Great Job! *thumbsup*

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Pentimo

Beginner

Posts: 37

Location: Dubai

Thursday, September 9th 2010, 7:20pm

Thank You So Much !

The hitcounter works like "normal" counter.

Increase the number of "visitor number" field in Sql database through PHP when new visitor see the pano.
After Read this information and send to "pano XML" with Javascript.

We use same method to send any information from database to XML. (eg. date, text info, head settings .....)

Thanks

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tiago.freellas

Beginner

Posts: 19

Sunday, September 12th 2010, 1:44am

Very nice!! *g*

but, one question...

how do you synchronize the viewing angle of the original picture with the viewing angle of the earth? How to calculate the "heading" of each photo?

;-)

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Pentimo

Beginner

Posts: 37

Location: Dubai

Monday, September 13th 2010, 10:08am

Thanks !

The placemark, photo overlay and camera position are fully customizable in earth KML.
Only you have to know the north position of your panorama photo, and the initial hlookat value from your pano XML.
With this two information you can set the correct position of placemark on earth, and you can synchronize "fly in" to panorama photo.

All details: ;-)

http://code.google.com/apis/kml/document…opicsinkml.html

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milotimbol

Intermediate

Posts: 242

Location: Philippines

Occupation: Software Developer

Tuesday, September 14th 2010, 7:46am

How about the bubbles? do you have your own layer in google earth? Or is this customizeable?

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Pentimo

Beginner

Posts: 37

Location: Dubai

Tuesday, September 14th 2010, 7:54pm

The bubble is a photo overlay. Fully customizable in KML.
You will easy to understand the description here -> http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/photos.html

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Zephyr

Professional

Posts: 1,003

Location: Netherlands

Occupation: Web developer

Wednesday, September 15th 2010, 12:13pm

Great example :)

What I miss however is, when you are in the krpano layer, you have to go back to earth by clicking on the button. I would rather see a zoom out function (since you can get in the sphere by zooming in, it's weird that you cant get out of the sphere by zooming out).

If krpano's view.fov becomes bigger then lets say 110degrees, you'll zoom out of the orb of google earth. Should be easily possible by assigning a onviewchange event, that calls a javascript function when view.fov > 110 degrees. This function can be the same as you already have (by clicking on the button).