Lets make Celestia the better google-earth

[raphi72]

There's one thing I miss on Celestia, which let's google earth perform much better: Google dynamically get's the data of the internet, when you zoom in to a special spot on earth.

I think, that there is a chance to implement that feature to celestia:
I just looked over the doxygen documentation and found, that all it takes is to add that feature to the texmanager:
http://celestia.teyssier.org/source-doc ... _8cpp.html

Why don't we just borrow some code from NASAs EarthWind like this one:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/n ... &view=auto

Well - I know it's C# instead of C++ and needs a lot of work to import that,
but I think it would be great to include the BlueMarble NG images to Celestia.

Maybe someone can even sniff the google-earth protocol to get
google-earth textures into Celestia.

[Jeam Tag]

Maybe someone can even sniff the google-earth protocol to get google-earth textures into Celestia.

GE textures are in false colors, IIRC. Jeam

[raphi72]

Maybe someone can even sniff the google-earth protocol to get google-earth textures into Celestia.

GE textures are in false colors, IIRC. Jeam

Having the image data and a screenshot of the image,
it should be possible to map the colors back to their
correct values.