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Google Maps in 3D within Flash Player
| By Rich Tretola | July 31, 2009 | |
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Wow, this is just pretty damn cool. Google has announced that they now offer a 3D perspective for the Maps API for Flash. Click here for more information.
“We’ve taken the regular API, added pitch and yaw, borrowed the look-around control from Google Earth, and thrown in some nifty camera trajectory support. The opportunity to see the world from a chosen point of view is now in the hands of a user!”
Check out the demos (click each to launch).
| UK Weather Tour | ArcGIS Services | PaperVision3D Scene |
| Ian Watkins | Nianwei Liu | Satoshi Ueyama |
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| Eiffel Tower KMZ | 3D Driving Simulator | Weather Radar GroundOverlay |
| Masashi K | Katsuomi.K | Andrew Trice |
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Topics: Announcements, Flash Player | 5 Comments »
July 31st, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I’ve tried it and it works nicely, but for AIR it doesnt work, or I dont see anything obvious
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July 31st, 2009 at 4:58 pm
I tried a few of the demos and they are pretty interesting. The 3D Driving Simulator was interesting and made me think of when/if we ever have our entire globe mapped with respect to it’s 3D counterparts (building, bridges, etc.). I know in big cities they do this, and if they build the 3D models in such a way that they can easily extend, in the future, and be utilized as rigid bodies (for collision detection) then you could essentially “drive/play on earth”. Where a fusion of video game and real-world data becomes a game or training ground. Interesting, fun, and potentially scary.
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July 31st, 2009 at 6:33 pm
This is a great example of why Flash needs hardware-accelerated 3D. Software rendering just doesn’t cut it.
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