A fun update from the Google Earth team this week as they provide details of advanced measuring in 3D.
So, why measure in 3D? Here’s a sampling of whay you want to do this from Google Lat Long Blog … “3D Measurements can be used by engineers to plan wind farms, real estate firms to determine skyline views for new high rise buildings, construction companies to measure the materials needed for a retrofitting, architects to calculate the space between buildings, and more.”
How it Works – To measure buildings and distances between buildings, just turn on the 3D Buildings layer and click the Ruler Tool icon in the toolbar. If you’re running Google Earth Pro, you’ll notice two new tabs for measuring in 3D: 3D Path and 3D Polygon. Once you do this you can then accomplish the following:
Measure the area of the face of a 3D building
Measure the height or width of a 3D building
Measure the distance between a building and a point on the ground or another building
