EricMLevy Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Here’s an easy way to use Google Maps, Photoshop, and 3D Studio Max to generate a pretty good site plan for architectural visualization. Tutorial: Quick & Easy Site Plan Using Google Maps Feedback is always appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alias_marks Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Pretty cool and interesting. Thanks for sharing, definitely learned a couple things (esp. the path stuff in photoshop). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricMLevy Posted May 2, 2008 Author Share Posted May 2, 2008 When I get around to writing about it, I'll do one about a great way to add site buildings to this semi-automatically too. I recently used this technique for the area around the site I'm working on. All of that surrounding information doesn't have to be accurate, it just has to look sort-of right. Just look at all that stuff I didn't have to do by hand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudio Branch Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Nice tut... The path export is similiar to a technique I saw on Eric Hanson's Digital Sets DVD. Have you tried using the exported path with "ShapeMerge" on terrain geometry that isn't flat? I've seen a post or two mentioning it, but I don't know how clean it is modeling-wise and how well it would facilitate texture mapping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
own1221 Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Only real thing that needs to be considered is the contours, here in New Zealand there isnt that many flat areas so it looks kind of fake when its all fake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricMLevy Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 Yeah, it doesn't really help for that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajesh_seeni Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Hey Cool. And Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlAhearne Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Quite a nice little technique to get a simple ground model...Would be interesting to see if this could be adapted at all to get some height in the model.. I guess manually tweaking vertices would work if you had the time/information.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjornkn Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 There aren't many flat sites in Norway either In SketchUp you can easily make a simple terrain by drawing contour lines at their levels and then skin it with "from contours". Then use Drape or Stamp to put the roads etc into the terrain. These 3 tools are not available in the free version though. In LightWave you could make a simple terrain and stencil the roads into it. I'm sure there are similar tools in Max etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharafalijaffri Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Not all browsers support the Google API, and not all users run their browsers with Javascript enabled. So use a element to detect the situation where there is no Javascript, and use GBrowserIsCompatible() to detect a non-compatible browser. The createMarker() function not only sets up the marker and its event handler, but it also causes local copies of the "marker" and "html" variables to be preserved for later use when the event gets triggered. This is a special feature of the Javascript language called "function closure". You can use almost any valid html in the info window, as long as the browser can work out the required height and width before rendering it. If you want to use html that uses quotes, you can use single-quotes in the Javascript string and double-quotes in the contained html. E.g. createMarker(point,' height=100>'); http://usegmap.blogspot.com/2011/03/markers-and-info-windows.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
factak Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Hi everyone, It would be wonderful if someone repost the tutorial again since the link in the first post does not exist anymore. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymarcher Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 http://wayback.archive.org/web/: http://web.archive.org/web/20080516091329/http://www.sweatyrobot.com/ericmlevy/2008/05/02/tutorial-quick-and-easy-site-plan/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamRosauio Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 This link seem to be missing, can one re post if they have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricMLevy Posted June 26, 2012 Author Share Posted June 26, 2012 Sorry guys. The tutorial was on a Wordpress blog that was hooked up with an expired domain name. There's a way to get it all working, but I don't want to do it. Until then, the web.archive.org link still works. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricMLevy Posted June 26, 2012 Author Share Posted June 26, 2012 OKAY FINE! I made it into a PDF. I hope it helps. DOWNLOAD HERE tutorial_siteplan.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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