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The Aerial photographs I process with photoOverlay are thousand. I am looking forward to a slideshow tool to play my photoOverlay works. Yes, Google Earth provides a plug-in to view PhotoOverlay on browsers. By the plug-in, I released works like “Flyover Sun Moon Lake“. Recently, I occasionally find that Google provides “Entering a Photo Overlay” in low-key, which is exactly what I want. This “NASA Top 10 Photos in Google Earth” kml is a trial work.

I design a player for slideshow. You can Play(loop), next, prev, first, pause. I also BMG it. This is a prototype design. If possible, I will compose a gadget for everyone.

<This post was translated to English by Shawn Chiu>

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Mt. Shin-Long is an independent hill locates at Wan-Fung community MRT station, Southern Taipei, and is surrounded by communal house. The path is without refurbishment. I’ve explored a couple of times in these two years. This time, I purpose to make a trail map. I also take dozens of pano pictures and compose a series of trail view like street view, as the introduction of the trail.

In addition, as you can see, I put an electronic tower beside the path, and connect with cables. By the way, I set a 4D Mu-zah line MRT kmz file link, which is a former work of mine. The modeling of 3D Taipei buildings is my 2-year-ago work, which enriches the view. The tour is BGM with a delightful melody. Now, let’s go for a flight on Mt. Shin-Long and a bird view of Taipei City on Google Earth.

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The original clip is one of HD movies Taiwan Aerial Imaging (TAI), dealing the shot like a film with 15 scenes. I took little time to find the location on Google Earth. I utilities 3D SpaceNavigation to operate the shot and record AVI files. Finally, I composed them in Movie Maker, which is included in my Windows XP.

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Sun Moon Lake is located in the center of Taiwan and is the island’s largest lake. It is a beautiful alpine lake, divided by the tiny Lalu Island; the eastern part of the lake is round like the sun and the western side is shaped like a crescent moon, hence the name “Sun Moon Lake”.

In my article posted in July “aeroFoto Formosa in Google Earth in a browser“, I showed Taiwanese aero photographer chi’s pictures in Google Earth Browser Plugin. In recent days, I find PhotoOverlay can be displayed by plugin as well. Therefore I give it a try with 22 Sun-moon Lake pictures.

Although Browser Plugin shows PhotoOverlay, the API functionality is not complete. For instance, “zooming bar” and “close” of controller on top right corner don’t work. Fortunatelly, I can zoom with mouse wheel. But I have to figure out another way to close photo viewer. I add a placemark file so that you can entre Snapshot View of the placemark and close photo viewer. Then you are able to fly to spots one by one with left hand side placemarks. Double click the icon on the centre of screen to entre PhotoOverlay mode. Thereafter you can zoom with your mouse wheel and fly to another aero-photo by the pervious operation.

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I have a friend living in Buenos Aires, Cai Shifang. I asked him to help me the translation into a foreign language. He translated the article into Spanish because his Spanish is better than English .Therefore, I use Spanish to show this article as below.

Mis hijos me recomendaron la película (El cabo #7), pero no tenía mucha gana de verla.

Cambié la idea cuando Louis me acordó que yo pedía poner “El cabo #7” en GE con quién encontramos en la compañía de Google en Taiwán hace unos días atrás. Salí temprano de casa el día siguiente para ir a ver la película. Pensé que la primera función podría tener menos gente pero cuando llegué al cine a las 9 y 50 ya había una larga cola. La mayoría de los espectadores eran de mi edad (de los 50 años para arriba). Por fin conseguí la entrada para la tercera.

Durante 2 horas y 20 minutos de la película no cedía la risa de los espectadores. Hace mucho tiempo no veía una similar que me emocionó tanto. ¡Excelente! Les re-recomiendo.

Saber el lugar de filmación de la película no es tan fácil como mostrar la locación de interés en GE. Encontré bastante información acerca de la película buscando en Google. Por ejemplo Sitio de WikiGPS localizó varios puntos de filmación. Pero solo decir los lugares no es tan atractivo como ilustrarlo con imágenes. Al final entré “El Blog oficial de la película” que tiene muchos clips. Junté 12 de ellos e hice esta página para compartir con ustedes.

Si quiere navegar “El cabo #7” en GE, puede bajar aquí. En el archivo puse 5 videos cortos de Youtube más aerofotos de Chi y 3 moldes de Jim Hsu. También es interesante visitar “Parque Nacional Keng-Din”.

In response to “Global Earth Day,” NASA released the 10 most popular photos on April 21. These photos were all taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. All of them are fantastic.

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