I've been looking into contributing 3D data to Google Maps/Earth. I am not entirely clear how to go about doing this (In this instructions they have explained how to go about it but in the link with the form to get started they seem to suggest that only organizations can contribute). To start with, I need to clarify the following:
I am not part of any organization. I have some 3D models of buildings in my city. Do I have to be connected to some organization in order to contribute?
And if the answer to 1 is no, then where do I upload by models?
Here is the official post in the official 3D Modeling for Google Earth & Maps forum: 3D program retired
It is no longer possible for you to submit 3D models for inclusion in Google Earth. To answer your questions: 1. It was possible to submit 3D buildings for anyone. 2. This was done by uploading them to the warehouse and then filling in a form.
The way I read it is that you as an individual contributor can also submit models via the 3D warehouse. (I assume you have less than 100 models).
The steps seem to be pretty straight forward, if you use SketchUp there is a feature in the program to upload to the 3D warehouse, and if you have a KMZ with the model you can upload to the 3D warehouse from the site itself (there is an upload button in the top right of that site).
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I've been trying to encourage some of our less Revit-savvy building services engineers to utilise the Autodesk Viewer product. Unfortunately though, I have encountered a couple of problems, one of which I think I have solved and one which I am guessing is more to do with the Autodesk Viewer Applications programmed interaction with the model derivative API.
Initially I uploaded our services model with supporting architectural and structural models but the phase the solitary 3D view created in the viewer was "Existing" with a filter of "Show All". I managed to get around this by creating a 3D view in each model just called "3D" and setting the phase and filter as I like. Happy days.
Could this also have been better solved by setting generateMasterViews to true during the POST job on a custom Forge viewer app?
However, I am only getting some elements from the services model come through into the Autodesk Viewer application. Most notably it's missing ducts, sanitary pipework, cable trays, radiators. In the "3D" 3D view I have created everything is phased correctly, no issues from worksets, visibility graphics, view discipline is coordination (doesnt work to change to mechanical) and everything looks hunky dory in Revit. In the viewer though it's a different story. Even if I upload the services model on it's own. Strangely, in the 2d sheet views all the equipment and infrastructure is there fine, just in 3D it is now.
So my knowledge of Javascript and the Forge API is quite rudimental but I'm guessing the problem is with Autodesk Viewer's implementation of the model derivative API for when the model is translated to svf.
Does this sound correct?
Could it a bug within Autodesk's viewer app? I'm not too sure what the best Autodesk forum to post in would be.
Could it be a bug within the model derivative API? Or is it a setting that is beyond my knowledge?
I guessing I'm at a place where what I'm really after is a custom Forge viewer application to design in the functionality I am after, in this case control of phasing in the .svf file output and ensuring everything is coming through in the view.
Not the most interesting post by any stretch and if you're still reading now, thanks. But I'm sure I can't be the only one experiencing this problem. While I'd love to share a model to demonstrate whats happening, it's commercially sensitive unfortunately.
If anyone can shed a more technical light on
Cheers,Pete
Hi please make sure those elements are visible in 3D views and those 3D views are chosen in the publish settings of the Revit UI. Otherwise, the Model Derivative API will translate the default 3D view called {3D} only that might not contents proper element visibility configurations.
If this issue still persists after setting this up, please consider providing a none confidential model to forge[DOT]help[AT]autodesk[DOT]com for investigations. Thanks!
I am interested if it is possible to add 3D models of buildings in Google Maps? Although Google (and community) have 3D mapped biggest cities, there a lot of cities that remain flat (2D), but have interesting landscape and tall buildings that stand out. For example, my hometown Rīga, Latvia.
As I searched this question, a lot of resources came up that states "nope, the community can no longer add 3D models - Google is now mapping everything with satellites".. but that info is 2-5 years old. And information in different forums is conflicting, so it is worth a shot for a new discussion.
There is even SE question with exactly the same question. Since more than 2.5 years have passed I feel that things might have changed, so please do not mark this as a duplicate to a super-old post. :)
Question - is this true?
Or (even today) it is possible to add 3D models to Google Maps? If yes, then please provide any guide/link/information how to do it.
Seems like it still is not possible.
Hello #Diezvai No, It isn't possible right now.
Several years ago when Sketchup was still for Google, we had this
ability to create 3D models and submit them for public visibility on
Google Earth as dear #ermest mentioned. Also in Map Maker we had some
basic tools to create simple 3D models of buildings but both retired
years ago. Even we missed the tool for creating flat polygons!
After that (and also simultaneously in labs) Google focused on smart
modeling the world. These days system gathers needed information and
images from many resources like satellite, aerial photography, photos
from users, street view photography and many others to generate 3D
models of buildings, trees and even cars! Also system doing same for
showing simple models of buildings on Google Maps.
So there is no tool for users to create 3D models and upload them to
Google Maps or Google Earth. Maybe currently smart 3D modeling aren't
available in somewhere (like Iran for example) but by improving
artificial intelligence and more data one day they will.
Source - https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/General-Discussion/Is-it-possible-to-upload-3D-models-to-Google-Maps/m-p/1802100/highlight/false#M495932
I need to get room/area objects with the hierarchy of linked objects from the Revit model via Forge. Right now I am using this project as a starting point. Unfortunately, the room information is lost. As far as I understand, it is removed during the translation process. There are some workarounds like this one, but it doesn't seem to work for our case. Is there any straightforward way to retrieve room information from rvt in Forge?
Although there is not directly way to get room information via the Forge translator, there are still some workarounds to archive this:
Open Revit project with room elements only via the Navisworks, and upload to Forge for translation, use this result as the secondary model of your viewer app as well.
Extract room info. and object relationships via Revit API, and use external mapping feature of the Forge Viewer to rebuild partial relationships between elements and rooms, if room geometry info. is not required.
Hope this help.
Unfortunately room information is not exposed through the Forge translation at the moment. We have a change request pending about it because several developers have been asking this feature. It will be provided in the future but at the moment the best workaround is the link that you pointed out. Sorry for the bad news.
I want to make a very clean map that only shows relevant information - e.g., only the streets that matter. I was going to just draw a map while looking at Google's, but that turned out to be very slow. Is there any way to make this easier, perhaps with some combination of mapping software and Google's API?
(If I should of put this on another SE site, please tell me)
Building upon Suvi's nice answer.
There is a very useful open-source project that collects street data for the entire globe. It's called OpenStreetMap. On their website you can extract the specific street data you need. It only takes a few clicks and bam! you got the map you need. Their data can also be accessed (perphaps easier for some) from here and here. Those links can provide you with the shapefile(map) that you need. Your newly aquired map can then be loaded in the free QGIS software that was mentioned. There you can easily select the streets you are interested in.
When you mean you want to only show "streets that matter", you are out of luck with using Google Maps. Because you have no control over the ROADMAP data that google provides. Now what you can do, is use another mapping software such as ArcGIS or Quantum GIS (which is free). Both these softwares allow you to load road data shapefiles, and you can query (select) which roads you want to display and customize the look of it to your liking.
If you want a quick approach (without having to download softwares), I believe ArcGIS has an online portal which allows you to display information you want on top of their base maps. You will still need the shapefile for your streets though. Check this link out, make yourself an account and experiment around with it http://www.arcgis.com/home/. If you click on the Map tab, it takes you to a screen which should allow you to upload shapefiles.
You said you were ' going to just draw a map'. If all you need is a very clean map, you can consider using iMap Builder which is a mapping software supports both map shape files, and custom Google maps. I have used to create some simple map projects before and worked great for me. You can use their pre-made map templates which shows just the map outlines without any details, you can then add routes / points / mouse-over speech bubbles etc as you need.
I want to create an application where users can mark on map location of polluting factories. Google map provides a MAP editor feature. We would like to have our own website like www.toxic-map.org where people could mark these locations. What would be the best approach for this?
Additionally we should be able to backup this database which could be cross checked or used for other purposes.
This will enable us to have little accurate census of such entities and thereby helping us in the fight against these environment harming, illegal factories. Most of our work is focused on developing countries of Asia.
Edited: Google maps is one of the options. I am open to other possible solutions as well. I am looking at something we could do quick prototyping in.
Thank you in advance!!
On the client side, I recommend you to have a look at OpenLayers, a free and open source web mapping framework released under a BSD-style License. It is completely written in Javascript and offers a lot of functionality, including the features that your application may need (Add markers to the map, drag them to adjust the locations, ...).
It also supports dozens of different geographic data formats and services such as WMS, KML or Google Maps.
If you are worried about licensing issues regarding the use of Google Maps, you can use other global data sources like OpenStreetMap or a public WMS if they provide enough coverage of your area of interest.
On the server side, I agree with the answer provided by Daniel Vassallo. I will just add a little detail and recommend you to serve the markers in a standard format natively supported by OpenLayers like KML, GeoJSON or GeoRSS. It will make really easy to draw the markers on the map.
Looks like a really interesting project, I hope you are lucky starting it up.
I seem to remember that there are restrictions to what you can do with the coordinates if you enter them through Google's interface, but if that doesn't bother you then sure, Google might be the way to go. (It may just pertain to geometrical figures entered into Google Earth or something like that.)
Google seems to be in line with your ideology anyway, as they're doing a lot of green power development. Might even be a selling point.
But if you can input the data separately and have Google Maps just display it for you then I wouldn't think they could hold claim to the data.
I think your best bet is to use the Google Maps API instead of the map editor in My Maps.
With some basic JavaScript, you will be able to allow users to drop markers on the polluted locations they would want to tag.
You will need a database on the server-side, and a thin application layer that:
Accepts and validates new markers added by users.
Serves the markers from the database to the browser.
You may want to use AJAX to interact between the browser and the application layer.
I think this type of project would be an excellent candidate to be hosted on the Google App Engine. You will be able to leverage on the simplicity of the webapp framework, and the Google Datastore appears to fit well.
As a side-note, you might be interested in checking out the Heat Map API for Google Maps. I think heat maps would look good in a project like this.
The approach is this:
1. User can drag the marker to the location of toxic factory.
2. A simple form opens to enter details of the toxic factory.
3. The latitude, logitude and other datails are then saved in database.
Please refer www.loppee.com They have a similar solution where user can mark the location of people or places of interest. Loppee uses LeafletJS javascript framework. It is a simple framework. You would be able to develop quick prototype. LeafletJS.com has simple and easy to use code samples.
Additionally, you can enable Geolocation and IP triangulation. Refer: Longitude and latitude value from IP address