Hi Guys,
This is Tamer E. Louis, a software team leader..
I made a program to integrate with google earth (GE) and builds the cache file for a specific area needed by the user.
My program called Google Earth Voyager (GEV) because it automatically surf the area you want without any need to surf it by your hands..
Actually I always wanted to scan a big area over GE with a detailed zoom (from only 600 meters altitude) but the problem was that I have to move over the whole area with the mouse so GE will refresh every snapshot and save it in its cache for later offline view.
So, I made this program that will take the details of the area you want to scan and the zooming value and it will fill the cache automatically.
In contrast with cache builder, GEV will scan the snapshots in order and it will not take random snapshots, so it will guarantee that you will go for every detailed square in the whole area.
Also it stops when it finishes the full scanning and gives the user an information message. It will not go forever.
You can download it from my web page at
www.geocities.com/tamatimo.geo/filesthe file name is GEV2.0.zip
I also want to describe quickly how to use it.
1. Open Google Earth (GE)
2. GO to Tools menu -> Options -> Touring tab and set the "Fly to Speed" option to the max Fast.
3. GO to Add menu -> Network Link, then browse for the file called GEVData.KML which is beside the program.
4. In the appearing dialog and in the Refresh tab, check the option "Fly to view on refresh" and then choose "periodically" and set the time to 10 seconds (you can change the refresh rate as you want).
5. Press OK.
6. Open Google Earth Voyager (GEV), while your Google earth is still opened.
7. Set the data you want to scan in the program and press Start Voyage. You will see that GE is refreshing the snapshots automatically.
Example:
If you want to scan the Eiffel Tower area with Zoom of 250 meters altitude, here are the values you will set:
Latitude: 48 degrees 51 min. 36 sec. North
Longitude: 2 degrees 17 min 16 sec East
Area width of 1 km to the East and a height of 0.4 km to the South
For the snapshots:
Snapshots width of 0.3 km horizontally and height of 0.2 km vertically (got from the height and width of the image which is displayed on GE window from the selected Altitude).
Altitude: 250 meters
Refresh Every 10 seconds (to be the same as the rate you made at step 4).
N.B. You have to keep Google Earth running while GEV is running
Any comments are welcomed ...
Good luck
