Also you can not go under the surface of Google Earth, for obvious usability reasons.
On Thursday 01 February 2007 8:24 am, Stacho Mudrak wrote: > Quoting Julian Todd <julian at goatchurch.org.uk>: > > This file has Z-coordinates. In googleearth it's still treated as > > flat. I was hoping that I'd get something rendered in 3D but underneath > > the terrain, which I could see above the flat terrain if I turned the 3D > > terrain off. This doesn't happen. Has this been investigated? > > Yes. Google Earth is able to render also absolute Z coordinate (just > one flag can be added to the coord spec), but then you are not able to > see caves, when terrain is turned on. > > > Getting our 3D surveys rendered into the googleearth seamlessly (so we > > can throw away all our current viewers with their funny controls and > > ridiculous content-starved binary 3D formats) is something worth > > aspiring to. However, the land will tend to obscure the caves. > > All we need is "terrain transparency" slider in Google Earth :) > > S. > > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > Therion at speleo.sk > http://www.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion
