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Wed, Sep. 21st, 2005, 11:57 am
Rita and Google Earth overlays
I was browsing the Hurricane Rita path on the NOAA website, and then realized that Google Earth does image overlays. So I turned NOAA's boring picture into fascinating 3D views of the hurricane path. Currently, it's slated to miss Austin, make landfall at Matagorda Bay, take US-77 to Temple and Waco and then go on over Forth Worth. You can click on the pictures below. You can also download the Google Earth KMZ file (including the overlay jpg) here.     Wed, Sep. 21st, 2005 11:12 pm (UTC)
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) hoyhoy
Wow, that's freaking awesome! I don't know why someone hasn't thought of doing this before. Wed, Sep. 21st, 2005 11:18 pm (UTC)
ivo
If you come to Taconight I'll show you some neat zooms as well... Wed, Sep. 21st, 2005 11:21 pm (UTC)
hoyhoy
dang, I have to run, and have band practice after that, so I can't make it. I sent it to Phillip Torrone who writes for Popular Science and Make Magazine. Hopefully this will end-up on Make Magazine blog... Thu, Sep. 22nd, 2005 12:12 am (UTC)
(Anonymous)
Yap, it did. Wed, Sep. 21st, 2005 11:36 pm (UTC)
taral
I have to get Google Earth now. Thu, Sep. 22nd, 2005 12:48 am (UTC)
p3rlm0nk
It is fairly spiff. Watching the file list as it installed on my win32 gaming machine, it seems to be qt3 based. *cross fingers, knock wood, hope for osx and/or linux versions some day* Wed, Sep. 21st, 2005 11:50 pm (UTC)
(Anonymous): GoogleEarthHacks.com has TONS of downloadable overlays
http://www.googleearthhacks.com/downloads/
You need a free account to donload files but it only takes a second. They even have weather forecast overlays that automaticly update. Thu, Sep. 22nd, 2005 12:11 am (UTC)
texaspatsfan
I heard this morning that even though the eye is going to miss us, we're still expected to get tropical storm strength winds. Looks like a good weekend to paint! Thu, Sep. 22nd, 2005 12:40 am (UTC)
reanimated
consider yourselves lucky. *is fleeing houston at 2 in the morning to avoid worst traffic* Fri, Sep. 23rd, 2005 01:29 pm (UTC)
(Anonymous)
And how did that work out for you? Sat, Sep. 24th, 2005 10:33 pm (UTC)
reanimated
left at 4, 11 hours to dallas. in college station tonight. coulda been worse. Thu, Sep. 22nd, 2005 12:48 am (UTC)
compwizrd
crawford is right by waco too, isn't it? Thu, Sep. 22nd, 2005 01:44 am (UTC)
(Anonymous): Crawford is a stone's throw from Waco
You can see it in this rolloverlay
http://doomsdiary.com/texas.html Thu, Sep. 22nd, 2005 01:29 am (UTC)
(Anonymous): NOAA/CMU/NASA...
http://jaga.gc.cs.cmu.edu/katrina/index.html
One of the few reasons that I need to get Virtual PC installed on my Mac... Thu, Sep. 22nd, 2005 02:06 am (UTC)
nugget: Re: NOAA/CMU/NASA...
Don't bother. Google Earth uses far too much flashy 3D crap to be even remotely usable in Virtual PC. I tried, it was a total failure. Thu, Sep. 22nd, 2005 04:27 am (UTC)
celticdragonfly
Thank you SO much for these, especially the 2nd one. I'm a new enough Texas resident that I'm still fuzzy locating exactly where things are on the outline map. Yep. It's going to go just about over me. Thu, Sep. 22nd, 2005 09:02 pm (UTC)
abstrakone
does it auto update? (like is it pulling the latest image from that source? or is it just overlaying a static image?) Thu, Sep. 22nd, 2005 09:09 pm (UTC)
ivo
When I posted the article with the first 3 images, it was static. Later, in the 4th picture --where I added the sattelitte cloud cover--, both the cloud cover and strike prob map automatically update every 15 minutes over the web from their source URLs. Fri, Sep. 23rd, 2005 10:31 pm (UTC)
(Anonymous): new KMZ?
Absolutely amazing! Can you put up a new version of the KMZ that includes the auto-update capability? Fri, Sep. 23rd, 2005 12:09 pm (UTC)
(Anonymous): overlay
What a creacker !! When will Google Earth update itself daily ??? Maybe you can help.
Barry
Cape Town South Africa Fri, Sep. 30th, 2005 03:52 pm (UTC)
(Anonymous): Ga bier drinken...
...of iets anders nuttigs. Het wordt tijd dat je weer een keer in Ned. komt drinken met je jc. Dit kan gewoon niet meer, haha. |
