dshall Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 I am looking for someone who would be willing to spend 30 minutes on a GOTOMEETING to show me what you know about GOOGLE EARTH. Two weeks ago I was able to peak into a window and see a women BAKE A CAKE, today, I can not even see the windows. I am a bit confused as to what happened. Does anybody who knows a lot about GOOGLE EARTH have time to do a GTM with me? If you have time, please email me at dscotthall@mac.com I give up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Like to help but I'm also a little green with google earth, I would also like to know how they get the topo's off that site. Please include me if it happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VisualDandD Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Are you running google earth "pro". They were giving away free licenses for a while. I find it pretty awesome some of the things you can do. On lots with aggressive TOPO (say on a lake), I import the terrain to do lot studies. Sure not as accurate as a field measure, but it can get you started for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 back around 2007 we did a project in CO from VA we used google earth to show how the house would sit amongst the mountains and valleys and the views from the various windows we messed with it a few times after that but so much has changed since then I'm hoping to use to show the views from my ancestors lighthouse tower that was at the brink of Niagara Falls from 1833-1873 and the tourist elevator at the Niagara Whirlpool from 1869-1901 Lew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 Do you think I have GOOGLE EARTH or GOOGLE EARTH PRO? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jscussel Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Here are instruction to show Topo Lines in Google Earth. http://www.earthpoint.us/TopoMap.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VisualDandD Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Example of a topo import I did out of google earth for a lake house. I will then do the house and use different things to bring the topo into 3d including pl solids...etc. Works really nice. topo example.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPDesign Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Justin, How did you get that topo data out of Earth pro? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 Hey guys, this is some good stuff, I just spent some time with Jared B. discussing google earth. Thanks so much for your time JB, a lot of help. And I think there is more info that some of us knuckleheads could glean from this site. Let's keep sharing this info, this is great stuff. - Topo lines, it looks like Jon Scussel provided a link on the methodology, I will look into this - what about plat maps, does anybody know how to get plat maps out of google earth? I hope to do a vid to summarize all this stuff once I think I have enough info. If there is anybody out there who is a super star with google earth pro, maybe we could team up and do a vid for the rest of the guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Here are instruction to show Topo Lines in Google Earth. http://www.earthpoint.us/TopoMap.aspx Jon, I don't have the topo info in my google earth pro, do I need to download something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steph_en Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 DS Hall: "Two weeks ago I was able to peak into a window and see a women BAKE A CAKE, today, I can not even see the windows." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 Jon, I don't have the topo info in my google earth pro, do I need to download something? I have same problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidJPotter Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Google got into some law suits in Europe over privacy issues and as a result they automatically smudge out things like faces and signs (not everything) but based upon their own experience and law suits. DJP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbaehmer Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Jon, I don't have the topo info in my google earth pro, do I need to download something? Yes. There is a link highlighted in the picture and it will download a layer that can be imported into GE. From there you can change the transparency on the topo layer that was imported. It only shows a large area, so it is difficult to get individual parcel topos I believe. But others may have better luck than me on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steph_en Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 To load into Google Earth: Click on the link Jon provided, select "Open in Google Earth". To save: Within GE "Places" directory, left side of the app (in my ver.) right click on "Earth Point Topo Map" and select "Save to My Places" To adjust opacity: Directly below "Places" directory, at least in my app, there is a little magnifying glass icon and another (that is supposed to indicate opacity within a rectangle). With Earth Point Topo Map selected within Places above, click the rectangle and you can adjust opacity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steph_en Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Jon, you type quick... still, didn't mean to hijack you--took me a little bit to figure out how to set opacity, figured I'd pass the whole boat along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jscussel Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 As Jared said. There is a box near the top of the page that say's "View on Google Earth". The topo lines are not on Google Earth. They are imported as a layer on top of Google Earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrump Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 I couldn't figure out how to download it. Guess I am dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbaehmer Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 I couldn't figure out how to download it. Guess I am dumb. Click the highligted button in this link and it should automatically download. http://www.earthpoint.us/TopoMap.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted April 8, 2015 Author Share Posted April 8, 2015 I couldn't figure out how to download it. Guess I am dumb. I could not get it to download also. JB set me straight, there was some kind of trick that JB helped me with. Come to workshop and I bet JB can help you out before we start workshop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrump Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Is there going to be a workshop? If so, then I would like to attend. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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