Adding extra data to Google Earth models

jaxcoffee

Nice to see your still modeling Lee. Hows married life?

leedeetee

@jaxcoffee said:

Nice to see your still modeling Lee. Hows married life?

Pretty much the same as pre-married life!

Gaieus

Hi Lee,

Seems we are in the same boat

Anyway, I would suggest you to build a (simple) website around the models. Note that you can always add some very limited metadata (one website for additional info) so you will need to add all that additional info there.

Have you ever used the GE Plugin?

leedeetee

@gaieus said:

Have you ever used the GE Plugin?

Hi Gaieus,

I haven't, no. Can you point me in the right direction of some information?

The idea of a website sounds like a good idea, but not sure I should do this for something like a university?

Gaieus

Well, here is the API documentation:
http://code.google.com/apis/earth/documentation/
but best is to start with the examples:
http://code.google.com/apis/earth/documentation/examples.html
the demo gallery:
http://code.google.com/apis/earth/documentation/demogallery.html
and the code playground to get some ideas:
http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?exp=earth#hello,_earth
(they are all in the sidebar under the first link, too).

As for a separate website - it all depends how far you want to go. Setting up a WordPress blog site is easy and you can get started in a few minutes - then jst add "posts" for each building and you can include the maps with iFrames (something that is impossible on Google Sites unfortunately)

leedeetee

Thanks so much, Gai. I will take a look. I do have a website http://www.thepubsofyork.com/ which has spare subdomains so may even do something like that. I will have a look at the links you have sent - thanks again.

Are you a married man now then, mate?

Gaieus

Ah yes, the York pubs. I almost forgot!

leedeetee

@gaieus said:

Ah yes, the York pubs. I almost forgot!

My wife has been in contact with the estates department at the university and they are very interested!!!

Great stuff.

Just found this thread too, Gaieus, which you helped someone with - http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=271&t=27057&p=234046#p234046 This is what I was after.

Gaieus

Let me know if you want to start. I am also just "learning" this GE Plugin (for this qualification) as I am not a programmer/scripter myself.

leedeetee

Oooo, sounds really interesting. Would love to start. Will have to have a proper look at it.