The larger cities have the buildings in 3D ! Check out Dallas. Or New York. I haven¹t looked at Austin to see if its that way. Sketch-up ( a low cost 3d modeling program ) was supposedly used to create the downtown buildings. It would be fairly simple to create basic 3D models of Golindrinos and some of the larger pits in Sketch-up. I wonder if they would add unsolicited models to the map ?.......
On 8/31/05 3:04 PM, "Butch Fralia" <[email protected]> wrote: > This makes sense from a marketing standpoint. The majority of those using > this service are going to be looking for detail in the urban areas. We as > cavers are interested in the finest detail in the boondocks or at least in > areas where we expect to find caves. We are the minority in this situation > and will have to live with it. > > Having a large collection of 1 meter DOQ maps (USGS Aerials with each pixel > georeferenced with UTM) I can attest that those few counties I've accumulated > in Texas take a lot of disk space. Imagine the disk space required the whole > United States or whole world! > > Butch Fralia > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf >> Of [email protected] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 11:31 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: CaveTex: Google Earth Resolution >> >> >> Someone (Bill Steele?) speculated earlier that higher resolution images on >> Google Earth would be confined to urban areas. I knew immediately that he >> was correct, because I'd looked at metropolitan London versus the English >> countryside before he wrote his e-mail, and had observed that the city was >> at higher resolution. >> >> >> >> A look at the Austin area is interesting, however. The city and close >> surroundings are at what I presume to be highest resolution. A much larger >> area surrounding the city is in a middle-grade resolution (and appears to be >> monochromatic B&W). Outside this larger area resolution drops to a lower >> grade, color image. So there are at least three levels of resolution >> utilized in the service. >> >> >> >> Roger G. Moore, >> >> Greater Houston Grotto >> >> www.moore-archeological.com >> [email protected] >
