Tue, 08 May 2007 10:41:35 GMT
Super Mapping Mashup -> Globe Glider Next Generation.
Google Earth Blog Exclusive: The new Globe Glider has finally been released. Globe Glider first came out over a year ago and allowed you to tie a Google Map to Google Earth in an integrated fashion. The new Globe Glider goes much further than last year’s version. Now, not only can you tie together maps, but you can tie together Virtual Earth to Google Maps – OR, you can tie together Virtual Earth to Google Earth! I’m going to have to make a video (UPDATE: see the video here) to truly demonstrate how amazing this works (or you can try it yourself). You can even compare a Google Earth scene with a 3D model to a Birds Eye view in Virtual Earth of the same thing. Not only that, but I discovered you can even run the Virtual Earth 3D version within the built-in Google Earth browser and directly compare a scene in VE3D to Google Earth. The neat thing is that if you change the view in one window, Globe Glider changes the view in the other window to match.
In the screenshot above, I’m looking at the baseball stadium in San Francisco in Google Earth in the top part of the screen (with a 3D model of the stadium) and a Bird’s Eye view of the same stadium from Virtual Earth. But, the Virtual Earth app is actually running within the GE internal browser. If I turn the view in VE to the North, then the view in GE turns to the same view. Pretty cool huh?
