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Aerospace research over the years, has developed to a great lenght and has made it possible to view the earth from space.
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Picture Postcards from Heaven with Google Earth
by: Klaas Brumann 7eb
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How to print real photo postcards from a satellite image of your street or neighbourhood
The virtual earth simulation software ‘Google Earth’ has become hugely popular amongst internet users across the world. The fr
ee application incorporates maps, driving directions, and satellite images. It allows users to zoom and pan over three-dimensional images of cities and landscapes, drilling down from space to overhead details.
With a few steps and tricks it is even possible to produce personalised aerial postcards of a street or neighbourhood without the costs that used to be associated with aerial photography. Google Earth works on Windows 2000, XP, or Mac OS X (10.4) and can be downloaded for free from http://earth.google.com/. Once installed it is easy to navigate to an addresses in the UK using a post code or place name. The aerial image displayed can be rotated and tilted for the best view, which can be saved as a jpeg. The application allows tagging places and buildings, e-mailing images or creating so called place marks, which work like a link which can be shared with other Google Earth us
e
rs. Another convenient way to extract image data from Google Earth, is using one of the many screen shot applications available for free on the net. One such application is greenstreet SnapShot. Greenstreet software Limited, a 20 year old British developer of graphic software applications and their screen shot tools SnapShot can be downloaded for free from Electric Software (http://www.electric-software.co.uk/enews/register/), a site which promotes software offers, including several greenstreet applications and games.
The Google Earth Licence limits the use of the image data, but states: ‘You can personally use an image from the application as long as you preserve the copyrights and attributions including the Google logo attribution. However, you cannot sell these to others, provide them
as part of a service, or use them in a
commercial product such as a book or TV show without first getting a rights clearance from Google.’ The image data, though constantly improving (a new update was released in January), is still patchy in places, but from other areas images can be extracted, which are sufficiently clear to print satisfying aerial postcards of a street or neighbourhood. Google Earth images do not produce the crispest of prints, but are unique and a great surprise and joy for friends, a gift for a housewarming party or suitable image for an invitation card.
Once a suitable jpeg has been cropped and scaled to the size desired and it has been interpolated and saved this can be printed on an inkjet printer or through one of the online photo processing services like FotoInsight.com. FotoInsight claims that professional photo processing a
chieves a higher perceived resolution through the use of a larger number of colours and uses longer lasting inks.
Personalised postcards and greeting cards from satellite images are a welcome change to the Birthday, Anniversary-, Mother’s Day, Season Greetings or Valentines Cards routine. FotoInsight
picture postcards have a print area of 14 x 10 cm and the ideal resolution would be 866 x 615 pixel. Folding greetings cards have a print area of 13 x 9 cm where the ideal resolution would be a 799 x 556 pixel digital image file. For all printed cards the image jpegs should ideally exceed 100 kb in size. Once the photograph has been uploaded to http://fotoinsight.com or http://fotoinsight.co.uk the online photo service provides text tools ideal to insert a postcode, name or address details into the aerial photograph. FotoInsight’s print products, like postcards, greetings cards, photo books and photog
raphic calendars are printe
d in high resolution using the long lasting indigo print process. The cards come in sets of ten cards per order and are delivered by mail.
Note: Google Earth’ is a registered Trademark of Google Inc.
About The Author
Klaas Brumann is an internationally experienced business development director, Klaas Brmann has set-up and restructured mid-size technology companies in Mexico, the USA, Denmark, Sweden and the UK. An economics graduate from the Universidad Regiomontana (1994), he holds an MBA from the University of Liverpool (December 2005) wi
th a dissertation on online
business networking. He runs his own international communications agency serving a high IP-content client base from the software, telecommunications and internet industries as well as academic and research institutes in Germany, France, the Netherlands, the UK and other countries.
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This article was posted on April 11, 2006
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