NTU Campus Azalea Festival Google Earth Street View Tour
March is the season which Taiwan’s Indian azalea comes in full bloom. Along the sides of National Taiwan University’s most famous Royal Palm Boulevard, Indian azalea attracts numerous watchers flocking for flower viewing. NTU also holds “Azalea Festival” at the same time, which has already become a major annual event. I think that it would be a pretty good idea to take tours with Street View, but Taipei’s Google Street View is still under construction. At the fastest, the website will take several months to be established. I can’t wait until then, so I think to myself, “Why don’t I set up one?” I’ve just learned some 360 degree panoramic photography techniques recently from a fellow blogger, walker, so I decide to experiment with scenes of NTU’s Royal Palm Boulevard.
I’ve spent a few days shooting photos of nearly 150 spots. Since I lack professional panoramic photography tripod head, I can only take pictures manually. I then convert the files to 2:1 panoramic pictures through help of PTGui software. Later I convert them again to kml files with PhotoOverlay software. This kmz
file is my finished product.
In addition, I’ve created a web version of street view tour guide with Google Earth API. Please click on the following picture.
Another window will pop out to carry the street view tour guide.
<This post was translated to English by Christine Cheng>
Steven | GE Application, GE Plugin, NTU Campus
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Hello Steven, nice work!
I invite you to come visit a new site called realplaces.com to see if it strikes your interest. Our purpose is to allow *anyone* to create virtual “walk around” tours, such as you have created, independent of Google Earth or StreetView. We use individual stills rather than fully stitched images, but in doing so we have other advantages instead, such as zoomed views that are independent of the original view, and descriptions and comment streams tied to individual views. You can write detailed information about each individual view, and even more importantly, other members can comment on your places as well. Hopefully this results in engaging and interesting conversations that currently don’t happen inside StreetView.
We have just opened up to allow a limited number of users to come and give it a test drive and see what they think. I welcome you to be the first member from Taiwan!
You said,
“Later I convert them again to kml files with PhotoOverlay software. This kmzGoogle Earth File file is my finished product. ”
What PhotoOverlay software did you use to convert the images to KML? I’ve been looking at 360cities.com, but I want to be able to host the images locally as you have done.
You work looks great!
Hola a todos
Here is a PhotoOverlay software which create kml file and the ImagePyramid Tiles images that work with it :
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/software/photooverlaycreator.asp
if it can help…
[...] one manually, I will need 50 sets for 500 meter way. I’d rather use my previous work “NTU Campus Azalea Festival Google Earth Street View Tour” Google Earth KML, also named “Home-made Street View” by GEB administrator Frank [...]
Hi
i’m working with GE street view and your note very helpfull for me, but i can’t convert many kml to one.pls help me
thnks a lot
Hsn