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Show HN: Get any piece of Google Earth as a single normalized glTF
3D model
Google released an API in May to get fetch 3D Tiles of anywhere on
Earth. Using this in standard 3D engines like Blender is tricky
because (1) the tiles are in a geographic coordinate system (2) you
get a lot of little tiles at varying quality levels I wanted to
simplify this so all you need to do is get an API key, select a map
region and a zoom level, and get one combined glTF file that you
can throw into any engine. Especially if you're just prototyping
and want to see how this data looks in your engine before investing
in figuring out all the nuances of the API & coordinate system.
(Note that the API prohibits offline use, as in you can't
distribute a processed glTF file like this. But you can do this
preprocessing in memory whenever you're fetching tiles).
Author : OmarShehata
Score : 28 points
Date : 2023-12-17 16:37 UTC (6 hours ago)
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