Cardiff in 3d on google earth

[tommo]

I noticed that all and i mean all of the buildings in Cardiff are rendered in 3D on Google Earth. Now having no idea about progames i was thinking, wouldn't it be great if the 3d models could be used in Trainz for a very realistic route?

although i'd imagine the game would run a bit slow.

Any ideas of if or how this could be done?

 

[jake150598]

very good question being a trainz 2006 player for 2 or 3 years i still have no idea!!!!!!

 

[defacto]

Use DEM and import the sketchup into google sketchup, then turn the files into gmax and upload them to trainz?

 

[goochy]

Cardiff, google link?

G'day, can you put a google link in please?
would love to have a look. i've heard of Cardiff but not seen it.

Cheers.

I noticed that all and i mean all of the buildings in Cardiff are rendered in 3D on Google Earth. Now having no idea about progames i was thinking, wouldn't it be great if the 3d models could be used in Trainz for a very realistic route?

although i'd imagine the game would run a bit slow.

Any ideas of if or how this could be done?

 

[Vern]

Be aware that Google Earth and Google Maps/Streetview images are copyright and if you look closely watermarked as such. I suspect that prohibits any unlicensed redistribution even on something that might be freeware. Tempting though it might be as a quick way of sourcing building textures, you are probably better off making up textures by other means and relying on Google for its intended purpose - i.e. a reference guide.

 

[paulzmay]

...however the 3D warehouse appears to be open source...

Paul

 

[wholbr]

Hi Everybody

i've heard of Cardiff but not seen it.Cheers.

believe me goochy, if you have not seen Cardiff you definitely have not missed anything. The rugby and football played their is very much in line with the city

Coming from someone who lives the other side of the Severn Bridge

Bill
before someone bites my head of, I'm only joking It's quite a nice place really and worth a visit (if only on Google). Although, thinking about it I don't think I'd spend money on actually going there.

Again Bill:hehe:

 

[Vern]

I worked in Cardiff for 8.5 years, it's not a bad city. Unfortunately the housing was way too expensive so we ended up living in Bridgend, about 20 miles to the west. Certainly better than chavvie permanently-in-rebuilding Swindon!

 

[IsambardKingdomBrunel]

Hi Everybody


believe me goochy, if you have not seen Cardiff you definitely have not missed anything. The rugby and football played their is very much in line with the city

Coming from someone who lives the other side of the Severn Bridge

Bill
before someone bites my head of, I'm only joking It's quite a nice place really and worth a visit (if only on Google). Although, thinking about it I don't think I'd spend money on actually going there.

Again Bill:hehe:

Your in my little black book.

IKB.

 

[daveinblock4]

Hi Everybody


believe me goochy, if you have not seen Cardiff you definitely have not missed anything. The rugby and football played their is very much in line with the city

Coming from someone who lives the other side of the Severn Bridge

Bill
before someone bites my head of, I'm only joking It's quite a nice place really and worth a visit (if only on Google). Although, thinking about it I don't think I'd spend money on actually going there.

Again Bill:hehe:

Only been there a couple of times. The first time was back in the 70's to watch a football match at Ninian Park (Cardiff City's home ground). Cardiff (& Ninian Park) weren't particularly nice back then. However, my second visit was to a FA cup final at the Millennium Stadium (whilst Wembley was being rebuilt). Cardiff has had some improvements from the Cardiff I remember back in the 70's. Worth a visit. (of course Dr Who & Torchwood were filmed there, so worth a visit for that reason alone).

 

[wholbr]

I worked in Cardiff for 8.5 years, it's not a bad city. Unfortunately the housing was way too expensive so we ended up living in Bridgend, about 20 miles to the west. Certainly better than chavvie permanently-in-rebuilding Swindon!

Vern, cannot believe what I'm reading here as I know that many of us until today believed you were a person of great sense and taste..But.......... But..........BRIDGEND

well I mean

Bill:hehe:

 

[IsambardKingdomBrunel]

Vern, cannot believe what I'm reading here as I know that many of us until today believed you were a person of great sense and taste..But.......... But..........BRIDGEND

well I mean

Bill:hehe:

No worse than any of the cesspits in England.

You forgot the racist jokes about sheep and welsh people having the cheek to speak our own language.

IKB.

 

[paulzmay]

I grew up in Hereford, so Cardiff was a special day out. Not sure if that says more about Cardiff or Hereford though... <ducks>

Paul

 

[Vern]

Bridgend wasn't too bad in point of fact. Parts to avoid same as any town but having the Heritage Coast at Ogmore and Southerndown 15 minutes away, or scenic mountains and walks in the Afan Valley Park 25 - 30 minutes to the north is sorely missed in landlocked Swindon!

 

[Red_Rattler]

I think Googchy wanted a link to a possible example of Google's 3D, more than how do what the original poster suggested.

PS: If you haven't seen Cardiff, you haven't missed much - & that's to both Cardiffs above & below the Equator (Runs & ducks for cover!) :hehe:

TESTING - Having some minor issues posting

 

[wholbr]

Bridgend wasn't too bad in point of fact. Parts to avoid same as any town but having the Heritage Coast at Ogmore and Southerndown 15 minutes away, or scenic mountains and walks in the Afan Valley Park 25 - 30 minutes to the north is sorely missed in landlocked Swindon!

Hi Vern And IKB,Everyone
just joking Vern and IKB in my original posting. Apologies if it looked like anything else (have often been criticized for my warped sense of humor).

My impressions of South Wales were somewhat colored by my experiences in the late 1960s. I was then a young truck driver and often had to go over to South Wales with multidrop work.

That was before the Severn Bridge opened and from Bristol you would have to go up the A38 and through Gloucester then down the A48 to Newport where I did my first drops. The journey could take up to two and half hours and at the end you could look across the Severn and virtually see the Avonmouth warehouse where I had started out from.

I was over in Cardiff a few weeks ago and it certainly has changed especially in the bay area which is unrecognizable from what it was. The sad thing is that the great communities that there where up in the valleys by way of the mining villages and in the Bay Area of Cardiff have now disappeared either through unemployment (as it is in the valleys) or the aera being redeveloped and taken over by persons who through no fault of their own have no contacts to the great industrial and cultural history of South Wales.

As for Swindon, it was a great place and a great community when it was a railway town in the same era as the above. But sadly again that is all gone now.

Again apologies if my original posting humor was wrongly placed

Bill

 

[IsambardKingdomBrunel]

I have a warped sense of humour as well Bill, but i try to keep racism out of my thoughts about the english.

I spent 23 years of my life in the hell hole called the Slough area. After my parents dragged me kicking and screaming there in 1965, aged 12.

In that 23 year period i spent 1 year at the Swindon Apprentice Training School, 1969 - 1970. That was a far more pleasant experience and one i look back on with a lot of fondness.

As for my 4 years living in Andover Hampshire, the less said about that the better. Half the population natives of Hampshire, the other half LCC overspill yobo's and chavs, as was the case in Langley & Slough.

What a relief to have been back home since 1994.

IKB.

 

[chrisw27]

IKB

Ble yn y Gorllewin wyt ti'n byw?

chrisw27
Cymru Am Byth

 

[IsambardKingdomBrunel]

Chris,

Sir Benfro, Johnston.

Cymru Am Byth.

cheers,
Mike.