{"id":8423,"date":"2019-03-28T07:19:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T14:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=8423"},"modified":"2019-03-27T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T22:17:57","slug":"how-google-earth-builds-3d-worlds-now-including-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/28\/how-google-earth-builds-3d-worlds-now-including-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"How Google Earth builds 3D worlds (now including Sydney)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mowing your lawn with a plane&#8221; sounds like &#8220;Hunting geese with a rake&#8221; (I see you, weird old David Crosby!), but it\u2019s a good metaphor for how aircraft traverse a region to generate data for Google Earth. I enjoyed this short peek behind the scenes:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/suo_aUTUpps?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now Earth has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/earth\/down-under-over-and-all-around-sydney-3d-google-earth\/\">added 3D imagery of Sydney<\/a>, so I can <a href=\"https:\/\/earth.google.com\/web\/@-33.8567844,151.2152967,7.16622612a,859.55280273d,35y,0h,45t,0r\/data=ChIaEAoIL20vMDZfbm0YAiABKAIoAg\">fly the kids around<\/a> where Margot &amp; climbed the Harbour Bridge &amp; ate kangaroo pizza (not simultaneously, I\u2019m slightly sad to admit).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod\/original_images\/Sydney_Opera.gif\"><\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally: The Daily Overview features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/dailyoverview\/issues\/sydney-australia-from-airplane-169508\">a nice shot of Sydney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/suo_aUTUpps\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mowing your lawn with a plane&#8221; sounds like &#8220;Hunting geese with a rake&#8221; (I see you, weird old David Crosby!), but it\u2019s a good metaphor for how aircraft traverse a region to generate data for Google Earth. I enjoyed this short peek behind the scenes: Now Earth has added 3D imagery of Sydney, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8436,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions\/8436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}