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modestmaps as texture on 3d globe
It would be very interesting to construct a (papervision) 3d globe that is loaded with a modest maps texture. A running example is the yahoo news globe http://next.yahoo.net/download/newsgl....
I also found that tutorial http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge...
It looks already promising, but they use a static image as a texture and it cannot be zoomed.
The service to find locations is buttshit outside of the US (yahoo), I would use geonames instead.
It might be overkill for the performance in flash player but it would be incredible cool to be able to zoom in from space.
As the zoom level gets higher, it might be better not to use the 3d globe any more.
Anyone has some thoughts on this or knows of someone who started already something similar?
I also found that tutorial http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge...
It looks already promising, but they use a static image as a texture and it cannot be zoomed.
The service to find locations is buttshit outside of the US (yahoo), I would use geonames instead.
It might be overkill for the performance in flash player but it would be incredible cool to be able to zoom in from space.
As the zoom level gets higher, it might be better not to use the 3d globe any more.
Anyone has some thoughts on this or knows of someone who started already something similar?
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Inappropriate?The main issue you'll run into is that you need to request images from a server with crossdomain.xml permission in order to use a bitmap as a texture in Papervision. Also that most of the maps we use in Modest Maps are mercator projected into a square, +/- 85 degrees latitude, so there wouldn't be any texture for the north and south poles.
But that doesn't mean it's not doable:
I know of one open source project started by Anselm Hook, here: http://code.google.com/p/spinnyglobe/ – there are some code stubs in there to load tiles from Yahoo, but they're commented out.
Mapquest's AS3 API includes a 3D globe http://platform.mapquest.com/specs-fr... Poly9 FreeEarth offers a javascript API to a Flash-powered globe http://freeearth.poly9.com/ and there's this AIR app called Earth Browser that offers a Google Earth-like experience powered by Flash: http://www.earthbrowser.com/
Here's a quick example of the basic globeness you'd need using Flash Player 10's drawing APIs: http://senocular.com/flash/source.php...
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