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Stupid mapping question

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1. On January 26, 2007 at 23:20 anthologie said:

   Says the guy who works at Mapping Central.
   Speaking of, have you seen the satellite images of Dubai? The palm-frond-shaped island communities are horrifying.
2. On January 26, 2007 at 23:20 anthologie said:

   Says the guy who works at Mapping Central.
   Speaking of, have you seen the satellite images of Dubai? The palm-frond-shaped island communities are horrifying.
3. On January 26, 2007 at 23:27 zunger said:

   True, but I don’t know the Google Earth codebase at all and really don’t feel like trying to figure it out enough to wire the feature in myself right now. 🙂
4. On January 26, 2007 at 23:27 zunger said:

   True, but I don’t know the Google Earth codebase at all and really don’t feel like trying to figure it out enough to wire the feature in myself right now. 🙂
5. On January 27, 2007 at 00:35 faerieloch said:

   There’s a non-free (read: really expensive) piece of software that can do that called ArcGIS. It’s a really powerful database management tool for geospatial data. But it’s not cheap. Try ArcReader by the same people (ESRI), but I don’t know if it retains that piece of functionality (called buffering).
6. On January 27, 2007 at 00:35 faerieloch said:

   There’s a non-free (read: really expensive) piece of software that can do that called ArcGIS. It’s a really powerful database management tool for geospatial data. But it’s not cheap. Try ArcReader by the same people (ESRI), but I don’t know if it retains that piece of functionality (called buffering).
7. On January 28, 2007 at 03:48 jephly said:

   At the risk of sparking a technology war, I’ll mention that you can accomplish something kinda like this, with a little bit of work, using local.live.com.
   Using the drawing tools (available at the bottom of the “Collections” window), you can draw either lines or areas, and it shows distances as you’re drawing. Not as good as an automated tool, but if you just trying to get a rough idea of distance on a world map, it ain’t half bad.
8. On January 28, 2007 at 03:48 jephly said:

   At the risk of sparking a technology war, I’ll mention that you can accomplish something kinda like this, with a little bit of work, using local.live.com.
   Using the drawing tools (available at the bottom of the “Collections” window), you can draw either lines or areas, and it shows distances as you’re drawing. Not as good as an automated tool, but if you just trying to get a rough idea of distance on a world map, it ain’t half bad.
9. On January 28, 2007 at 08:26 zunger said:

   Yeah, I figured out how to do that on Google Earth too… but what I’d really like is to see the “halo” around a country all at once. I suspect that’s going to require writing code.
10. On January 28, 2007 at 08:26 zunger said:

    Yeah, I figured out how to do that on Google Earth too… but what I’d really like is to see the “halo” around a country all at once. I suspect that’s going to require writing code.
11. On January 28, 2007 at 21:05 jephly said:

    Probably. Or paying somebody who’s already written such code.
    It’s always encouraging (from a job security standpoint) how many problems still require writing code.
12. On January 28, 2007 at 21:05 jephly said:

    Probably. Or paying somebody who’s already written such code.
    It’s always encouraging (from a job security standpoint) how many problems still require writing code.
13. On January 29, 2007 at 01:06 sirreality said:

    I don’t know if this has the capability you want, but it might be inline with some of your interests:
    http://web.mit.edu/stgs/downloads.html
    It’s a utility for simulating ballistic missiles with Google earth.
14. On January 29, 2007 at 01:06 sirreality said:

    I don’t know if this has the capability you want, but it might be inline with some of your interests:
    http://web.mit.edu/stgs/downloads.html
    It’s a utility for simulating ballistic missiles with Google earth.

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