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As my former work “PhotoOverlay Slideshow”, I also demonstrate this work by “street view”. This August, Google announced Taipei City street view. However, so far, there is no Google Earth API for street view. If I cut them one by 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 Taylor.

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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.

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Kml Collection

General Campus Tours are traditional graphical display on the main plane at National Taiwan University campus years ago had also vrml showed three-dimensional manner, but because there is no entity such as the background, such as satellite images of the match, then disappeared. Two years ago, the emergence of Google Earth, I can think of Google Earth as a platform to make the campus map, but personal technological capacity is limited, only on paper, looked at the past two years, the evolution of GE application, Google Sketchup is also the beginning of this year the Office of the United States 3-D campus of the University of competition (Build Your Campus in 3D for Google Earth Contest), I could have the whole of Taipei 3-D buildings are completed, which of course include NTU campus, but it was limited to-face (not to affix Building Facade photographs) show, If we were to build a veneer of 3-D buildings, no groups of volume is impossible. As expected, Google recently announced the winners of the seven universities, almost all from construction-related faculties by the United Effort obtained.
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