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Google Earth PhotoOverlay Tool

Published at October 25, 2007 in Google Earth and KML. 0 Comments


Brand-spanking new from the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) comes the Google Earth Photo Overlay Creator, a free program to aid in creating PhotoOverlays, photographic images you can embed into Google Earth to correspond to the actual view. While you can do this to a limited degree from Google Earth, and can also do it directly in KML, the GE Photo Overlay Creator simplifies the job tremendously. It also lets you “tile” a large image, similar to tiled Ground Overlays, so that it loads in only the image information necessary for that particular view. This reduces both the bandwidth and computational requirements, particularly for large images.

The program is Java, and will run in Windows, Macintosh and Linux (check the readme.txt file for info; see this Digital Urban post for a full instructional tutorial). Full support of all image formats requires that you have Java Advanced Imaging installed.

Via Digital Urban blog.

Added 11/6/07: The Google Earth Blog links to another tutorial on this tool at GELessons.

Other posts in the Google Earth Data Tools series

  1. KML Editors
  2. Diagramming In Google Maps And Google Earth With Smoot
  3. Plotting Data In Google Earth Using GE-Graph
  4. Drawing Grids, Paths And Polygons In Google Earth Using GE-Path
  5. Online Google Earth Utilities For Buffering And Area Calculations
  6. Easy Display Of Thematic Data In Google Maps And Google Earth
  7. Using GIF/PNG Transparency In Displaying Raster Graphics In Google Earth
  8. Adding Vector Graphic Objects To Google Earth
  9. Animated GIFs In Google Earth
  10. Creating A Network KML Link To A Google Spreadsheet
  11. LIDAR Tools
  12. EarthPlot Software Tools For Google Earth
  13. Geographic Time Animations
  14. Convert TIGER Polygons To KML Files
  15. Putting Time Data Into A KML File
  16. Using The KML Time Embedder To Stamp Time Data Into A Google Earth File
  17. Using The KML Time Embedder, Concluded
  18. KML Time Embedder Improved With Hour-Minute-Second Ability
  19. Grid Creation And Path/Polygon Measurements: Two New Online KML Tools
  20. Google Earth PhotoOverlay Tool
  21. KML Random Placemark Generator
  22. Update For Online Google Earth Utilities
  23. KML Time Code Utility
  24. Screen Overlays In Google Earth
  25. The KML Screen Overlay Maker Utility
  26. KML Screen Overlay Maker Utility, Concluded
  27. KML Circle Generator
  28. Creating Google Earth Screen Overlays With EarthPaint
  29. Text Editor With KML Validation
  30. Online Spreadsheet To KML Converter
  31. Version 2.0 Of Google’s Online KML Spreadsheet Mapper Tool Released
  32. Creating Google Earth Ground Overlays From Georeferenced Images
  33. Google Earth Ground Overlays With GIF Transparency
  34. Creating "Transparent" Topo Map Overlays For Google Earth
  35. Using Google Earth Ground Overlays To Display Shapefile Data
  36. Converting 3D Objects Into Google Earth Format
  37. Thematic Mapping In Google Earth
  38. An Online KML Validator

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