Virtual England-some of it

jestr · Post #1by **jestr** » 11.10.2003, 18:14

I just thought you might be interested in this pic of the Somerset coast,south west England-this is at level8-I've tried at level9 but the Earth seems to disappear entirely.Hope you like it,Jestr
http://www.geocities.com/jestrjestr/images/images.html

jim · Post #2by **jim** » 11.10.2003, 20:57

Hi Jestr,

Jestr wrote:I've tried at level9 but the Earth seems to disappear entirely.

Do you have Celestia 1.3.1pre11 installed ? Celestia pre9/10 supports only up to level8 and exact this happens what you say if you try higher levels.

Nice work but is it really correct mapped ?

Bye Jens

jestr · Post #3by **jestr** » 11.10.2003, 21:03

As far as I can tell it is adjusted to fit with Blue Marble positioning.The detail comes from ariel photos at Multimap.com,and I think maybe reds are oversaturated,not much tho',cheers Jestr

Star Lion · Post #4by **Star Lion** » 11.10.2003, 21:23

kant see the pictur

ElPelado · Post #5by **ElPelado** » 11.10.2003, 21:31

Neither I...

JackHiggins · Post #6by **JackHiggins** » 11.10.2003, 21:50

Right click on the picture & pick properties
Copy the address
Put it in the address bar of your browser
Remove the "http://www."
Leaving only "geocities.com/jestrjestr/images/Bridgwater1.jpg"
Hit enter/return.

Geocities sucks. there are some much better free web hosts out there than them.

Star Lion · Post #7by **Star Lion** » 11.10.2003, 23:54

Try http://www.50megs.com
Thay have a free plan, and some plans (that are much better) that you dont have to pay very much for

bh · Post #8by bh » 12.10.2003, 00:17

Looks great!...can't wait to give it a try.

Regards...bh.

DJ_Night · Post #9by **DJ_Night** » 12.10.2003, 04:48

Geocities.com does not support direct linking to images.
copy and phaste the link below in a new browser,

looks great by the way.

http://www.geocities.com/jestrjestr/ima ... water1.jpg

cheers

jestr · Post #10by **jestr** » 12.10.2003, 15:12

Thanx Jim,I downloaded latest exe of Celestia and now go to level10-here are some pics-
http://www.geocities.com/jestrjestr/images/images.html
Hope you like 'em,Jestr

TERRIER · Post #11by **TERRIER** » 12.10.2003, 18:43

Cheers for the link to multimap.com Jestr, I've been trying to find a site with decent free aerial images of the UK. I've managed to zoom in on my house without any difficulty! Just a bit of a shame there's most of Scotland missing ( I wouldn't mind seeing Ben Nevis and Loch Ness) and parts of Wales too.

I must say your screenshots look pretty cool, what is the map scale for level 10 ? I notice they go up to 1:5000.

regards
TERRIER

billybob884 · Post #12by **billybob884** » 13.10.2003, 04:15

TERRIER wrote:I've managed to zoom in on my house without any difficulty!

I'd love to be able to see my house, how did you go about doing this?

TERRIER · Post #13by **TERRIER** » 13.10.2003, 11:44

To find a specific area in the multimap.com site it, asks you to enter the area post code that you want to look at. I guess this is the equivalent of the US zip code?

My house address obviously has a post code, so I entered it and it took me to the aerial view of the small area of my post code.

I zoomed in to the 1:5000 detail and used the bigger image feature and sure enough I could see my house. It isn't a crystal clear image but I can definately see it.

regards
TERRIER

jestr · Post #14by **jestr** » 13.10.2003, 15:01

I used the 1;25000 scale for my map,as I think it has the same detail as all the maps of lower scale-they just enlarge them as you zoom in.But even so it took me a couple of days assembling the 500 or so maps necessary for each tile.So far I have done tiles for south west England and the midlands-but I hope to do more eventually.Yes it's a shame much of Scotland is missing,also parts of the tiles that I have done had small areas where there were no photos at the required detail so I had to fall back on the lower detail ones to fill the gaps,I can make this available to download ,but it will be a while before I have all England done-cheers Jestr

billybob884 · Post #15by **billybob884** » 13.10.2003, 18:38

Well, I went to the site and sure enough i've found my street, but its only a map. No actual satellite pictures of it, but i'm still looking for a link or something.

billybob884 · Post #16by **billybob884** » 13.10.2003, 18:40

Oh wait, thats why. It's great britain only.

jestr · Post #17by **jestr** » 13.10.2003, 20:02

Yes I have only managed to find ariel phots for Britain (not even all of that) on the Multimap site-maybe you should try 'mapquest.com' for America though the colours look a little washed out.All the best Jestr

Star Lion · Post #18by **Star Lion** » 01.11.2003, 00:46

Pleas convert that to dds, or tell me how, pleeeeeeeeeeas!

jestr · Post #19by **jestr** » 01.11.2003, 03:24

OK StarLion it's done.I've only converted from JPEG to DDS DXT1 though so they wont be any better quality than the original JPEG's,and they are quite a bit bigger in file size than the JPEG's so I'm not sure how long they'll take to load.I only have JPEG version of Earth VT levels 0-5 so I cant easily test these levels in DDS.Let me know how it goes.Here's the link-
ftp://celestia:addons@81.108.221.84
All the best,Jestr

Star Lion · Post #20by **Star Lion** » 01.11.2003, 04:14

The reasin I asked is I have a dds Earth VT, and this is a grate adition. thank you!

Added later:
HOLY S*** its 250 megs!, thats way to larg fore the speed your running at, could that be split into 3 zips?, 1 for level8, 2 for level9, and 3 for level 10?

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