9/6/2023 0 Comments 3d google drive simulatorThe Google Earth Plug-in Driving SimulatorĪfter a surprisingly short time fiddling with the Earth and Maps APIs, the first version of the simulator was up and running. It got me thinking-if we can do fun stuff like drive a milk truck around a city crowded with 3D models of real buildings, and fly said milk truck off of our favorite local mountains, can we take this first-person-driver (FPD) concept and apply it to a more real-world problem? The problem of, say, familiarizing yourself with a new driving route before embarking on it in real life? The answer was clear: of course we can! And in that moment, the idea of an Earth plugin driving directions simulator was born! Web developers were also given a cutting-edge tool to marry their existing geo-aware web apps with Google Earth, in all its spherical 3D glory ( Maps/Earth integration mode ala G_SATELLITE_3D_MAP).Ī few days after I started at Google on the Earth API team, I found a video of Paul Rademacher's Google I/O talk introducing the plugin. It really felt like a great moment finally, immersive and lifelike exploration of geographic content was available to end users on the web, for free. In about 5 minutes, you'll realize how psyched I am about it, too.īack in May before I joined the team, I remember reading one day that Google had released an Earth browser plugin. My task here at Google is to help you all become experts with the Earth API and KML. I recently started at Google's headquarters after 4 years at Boston University studying Computer Science and Marketing. Some of you may already know me from the Earth Browser Plug-in Google Group. My name is Roman Nurik and I'm a newly minted member of the Google Geo APIs team.
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