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Shanghai World Expo in May this year, the Taipei Museum officially opened its doors, to marketing the Taipei Museum, the Taipei City Government organized a number of activities. I have read news reports, some people deform the “Love” four letters as a “taipei” in Chinese characters, which has led to the creation of my desire for it in Google Earth up marketing in Taipei!

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Hengchun Ancient City had been constructed in since 1875. During one hundred and thirty years, it experienced several historical tests, such as typhoons, wars, earthquakes, metropolis plan, artificial destruction and improper maintenance etc. At present, due to its original construction and the better scale of Ancient City, Hengchun Ancient City is designated by Ministry of The Interior as the second-class National Heritage Site.

Recently, Kenting National Park Headquarters authorized GAIAS GIS Consultant Co., Ltd. to develop and establish “Kenting national park Geo-layer demonstrative system”. In this project, the 3D model of Hengchun Ancient City, Dajiansh Mountain, tourist center and Eluanbi Lighthouse all have been accomplished completely. If you are interested in, please go to its official website and download whatever you need. Additionally, there is a webpage which is especially manufactured to compare the presence and the past of Hengchun Ancient City, with a song “the thought gets up” singing by Zheng Yi. This webpage introduces the historical construction, gate structure and the comparison between the remains and new street blocks of Hengchun Ancient City and the comparison of 3D models between the presence and the past could be downloaded and saved as KMZ files. Therefore, I would like to combine this material and the crystal ball of street scenes which were shot when I was walking on the Ancient City to roam around the whole Hengchun Ancient City.

I make use of Space Navigation to record a three-mins flying view around the Ancient City. Besides the model of Ancient City, I also employ ancient streets, temples, Hedong hill in landmark layers and put above them. When you operating, please click the button “fly to Hengchun” in advance, the screen will bring you from outer space to Hengchun Ancient City. The following step is to click “flyover Ancient City” the screen will present that from southern door to entrance looking around the whole inner city firstly and then fly to eastern door take a look at special roof with single eaves and double swallowtail, again, from northern door pass through the city. I furnish a crystal ball within the hole. Through this ball you will feel the experience of travelling through time, back to the old days. Walking out the door, Mt. Hu-Tou will come into your sight and then Looking around the Geomancy Geography, the four spirits Cerulean Dragon, Red Phoenix, White Tiger and Basaltic and the barrier of northwest gap Gueishan and lastly turn to the western door, fly into the building, pass through the window and go back to the Ancient City.

Finally, I design a roaming path; please click play to start this unforgettable trip. This trip will start from northern door, enter in Ancient City, go upstairs floor and then follow the eastern door to begin roaming…..

<This post was translated to English by Joyce Chang>

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The founder of Google Earth Blog - Frank Taylor was scheduled to start his round- the-world tour for global sailing tour on 13/Nov/2009 with the location in the Caribbean at the moment. It deeply inspire me by looking at his project of ‘The Tahina Expedition‘ website which for this worldwide tour’s purpose. It indeed touches my heart to see his dream coming true step-by-step.

For the past four years, his founded ‘Google Earth Blog’ was still simulating my similar project in a later time and I always enjoy reading and understanding his each article for advanced application of Google Earth. Gradually, my capability for the application of Google Earth is having improved as well. Several of my creative work, Frank Taylor will be introduced as well, which indeed give me great encouragement. His kindly introduction and opinion provided is very much appreciated.

In order to express my gratitude, I decided to make a Google Earth works to him, These material in this works are taken from “The Tahina Expedition” website, including:
1. Global tour planning routes
2.Tahina 3D Models by Gerardo Paz and Frank Taylor
3.Tahina real-time position
4.Tweeted position
5.Song by Styx - “Come Sail Away”.

For he first and second items, I can use my best “4D” skills, to make a 4d sailing boat along with the globe route. For thhe third and fourth data, it could be made real-time dynamic linkage and understand the real-time status of the future five-year of Tahina. I made another with my recent original approach, along the planning route laid by 29 super-high-altitude observation deck (I call the GE satellite), and it can be used to automatically (or manually) play slider-show controller, from a bird eye’s to overlook the fast-sailing in Tahina , (The GE timeline slider slowest time is 30 seconds interval, in order to finish the 70,000 kilometers of planning routes, it indeed need very, very fast sailing, only from the high sky that can clearly see), The fifth is one of Frank Taylor favorite songs, I also borrowed this as a soundtrack.

I make two flying tours, tour1 is a quick lap around the Earth along the planned route, firstly it fly to North Carolina that is the starting point of Tahina Sailing , you will see a 4000-times amplification, called Tahina yacht. The operation of tour2 that you can firstly press the ‘play’ bottom in timeline controller. Howervr, your better initially set the slowest speed, as well as ‘tick’ the “Loop animation” buttom. Then, you need to press the ‘repeat’ bottom in tour controller, and then press the ‘play’ button following on. Finally, you will see a 30 seconds lap of journey by surrounding the world. During the period, you may see the Tahina like a spaceship in a fast speed. Sometimes you can also press the ‘pause’ bottom to wait for the space ship showing up.

If you like my works, you are advised to surf the ‘Google Earth Blog’, and the ‘The Tahina Expedition’ website on a regular basis. You will see so many application of Google Earth projects worldwide, and find how Frank Taylor’s dream becomes true. Also, you may concern about our Earth as well. Let us some other time follow Frank’s step to plan another five-year global tour.

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Miramar is a leading shopping centre located in northern Taipei City. It is particularly noted for its very popular Ferris Wheel (48 cabins), which is just like the London Eye. Three years ago, barnabu’s successful work on the new Ferris Wheel inspired me to concentrate on a similar project. This allowed me to focus on the KML language and, one month later, to produce a 4D miramar Ferris Wheel. Since then, I have had a fair amount of confidence to use Google Earth, including the 4D MaoKong Cable Car and the Muzha-route Metro in Taipei.

The GE4.2 version has the newly added PhotoOverlay function which allowed me to try some new applications, including the super observatory function created by myself. Since then, I have been wondering whether I can put a high-powered telescope with 360-degree panorama super-observatory capabilities into the cable car, to simulate the visitors’ view from inside the cabin.

The ‘Tour’ function of GE5.0 also allows me to record much more for the sightseer in terms of Space Navigation. The result is reminiscent of the movement of a cable car, which is similar to a bird’s eye view though it does not come with a 360 degree panorama.

Two weeks ago, I discovered that Google had provided the function ‘Entering a photo Overlay’ in Google Earth API. This gave me the idea of producing a ‘Google Eearth PhotoOverlay Slideshow’ using Web language to automatically transfer from one panoramic scene to the next. If I can produce such panoramic scenes, which simulate the movement of the Big Wheel, and play it automatically, won’t that be a good attempt at making my original dream come true? Well, let me try it in the near future.

Unfortunately, I just like a wall-passer to see the computerised cable car to become fractured image. Obviously the current ‘GE’ function is still unable to satisfy my demands, but the ‘Slideshow’ I created, as described above, can still simulate the Wheel’s movement and provides a good view of the beautiful panoramic scene.

With regard to this project, my ultimate aim is to integrate the three functions referred to above. Firstly, it will be possible to press the ‘Icon’ button (second right at the top), to begin the Wheel’s rotation. Whilst you listen to the song ‘Taipei’s sky’, press the ‘Play’ button and the movement will be similar to that of the turning Wheel. Now, if you so choose, you can pull the slider to control the speed of the movement, and select the two high-rise towers, Taipei 101 and the Shin Kong Life Tower, as an optional background to the computerised scene. By so doing, you can panoramically view the rotating Wheel, or alternatively, press the ‘Pause’ button and leave ‘PhotoOverlay’ mode to observe Taipei from a bird’s eye view.

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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.

I set Royal Palm Boulevard as the guide trail, form the main entrance to the library, displaying with 5 second interval. You can press “Play” to start the tour. During the trip, you can press “Pause” whenever you like and click any pano on the path in the azaleas. Then have a free view around. Click on “Play” to go back to where you left. And you can pull the blue speed slider to control the play speed.

You can also drag the view to look around. The following scenes will go with this view, which means you can fix your view by different point of view (right, front, left and back), instead of modifying every scene.

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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.

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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.

The most delightful part of making this clip is that the background is ready, and the time of each shot is fixed. All I have to do is to put every shot in. Unfortunately, the graph in Google Earth is very rough. I could only find the lighthouse and Mt. Dajian models, leaving The sailing rock and the frog rock unshaped. In regarding to the original 28-second shot, “The part of surfing at Nanwan”, I only made a boring beach with Google Earth in the first. Actually, Augmented Reality (AR) can deal with dynamic images smoothly. However, I know nothing about AR. Therefore, I borrowed the original clips as an alternative.

From the time Google Earth 5.0 announced with “Tour” function, there are many wonderful works come out, such as “CRC Google Earth Tour“, “A narrated Google Earth tour of Afghanistan” by CBC News, “Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Tour“, etc. I also contributed “Backman Tony’s 176th backward challenge“. To make these pieces, you need to not only familiar with coding in KML, but also have a sense of screenwriter, counting every scene and making them in time. In this work, “Taiwan Aerial Imaging - Kenting Flyover” gives me an idea: its scenario is ready and all I have to do is to transfer it to Google Earth Tour. Please don’t forget to open the YouTube above and enjoy the music.

By means of YouTube API and Google Earth API, Keir Clarke, the author of Google Maps Mania, has preformed a consistent work of Youtube and Google Earth Plug-In.

I tried to apply my KML and YouTube according to his html. Unfortunatelly, some topics and landmark descriptions cannot be displayed by this program. Please give tolerance and click the picture to open the co-flight of YouTube and Google Earth.

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The 21st Summer Deaflympics 2009 scheduled for Sep 05-15 held in Taipei in Taiwan.

There are 20 Sports , and carried out in 22 venues, so I list the 22 venues in the left column, click the following can fly to the venues and shows relevant information of the venue, including the address, competition schedule, as well as the sports. If you want to learn more about the content of the sports, after clicking to see the official website for instructions.

At the same time, I also used Chi po-lin’s aerofotos, Google street view (location relevant) as layers. You can turn on those layers to view the beautiful Taipei.

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Taiwan just went through the biggest typhoon in the past 50 years on 8/8/2009, the diameter of this typhoon reached 1200km. Some areas had their equivalent of one year rainfall in two days. The typhoon has caused ever the most destructive floods and mudslides in southern Taiwan.

There are some imagery of disaster area, including aerial photographs and satellite images:
1. FS2 Satellite Images(photoed on 8/17 by NSPO)
2. Orthographic Aerial Photos(Photoed on 8/12 to 8/25 by Aerial Survey Office, Forestry Bureau)(Kml by Sinica)
3.Nine Air Reconnaissance Photos (photoed on 8/12 to 8/13 by Central Emergency Operation Center)
4.Kao-Ping River downstream satellite images(Photoed on 8/14 by Spot Image)

As one of the best applicationer of google earth in Taiwan, I have the responsibility to provide the public available image to the public to apply. So I integrate those imagery in a a onclick=”window.open(’http://gemvg.com/www/flood88e.htm’, ‘new_window’, config=’height=680,width=1160′)” href=”http://en.gemvg.com/archives/258″>website. I also make a link to Chi po-lin’s 500 aerial photographs(photoed before disaster). In some areas there could be photos of pre-disaster and post-disaster to be compared.

In addition, I also provide the regional queries of township that was affected more serious. You can click on the left side of the township name, and fly to the township .