Terrain Maps/fly through

[Shane Ross]

Google Earth is one option. There is a license fee of $400/year for the production version.

I use a program called Curious World Maps which, BTW, is the TV mapping software you are thinking of. But it is very price restrictive…$10,000 for the base application with DEM (satellite data) for each region costing more. And it can zoom in from space to very tight, and then even do a 3D flyover. It can’t go from the zoom in TO the flyover, but I solve that with a dissolve or flash transition.

If you need to I can recommend someone who can do the maps for you. He is a genius. I would offer, but I am very busy cutting a rough cut at the moment.

e-mail is in my profile.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Jeremy Doyle]

Besides the license fee of $400/year for google earth there is also a per use fee of $200.00. That’s per use not per show. That fee is also to be paid for broadcast reruns. Works great for heavy popluation locations. Not so great for the boonies.

[Tim Maloney]

Thanks Shane,

Need maps based on Coolum in Queensland, Forster New South Wales, Melbourne Victoria, Busselton Western Australia, Canberra Australian Capitol Territory. Tununda South Australia.

Need GIS info in a 150 KM Radius.

Tim
Axis Films Australia

[Shane Ross]

What is your budget? How many Maps?

E-Mail me and I can forward your info to my map guy.

comeback@mac.com

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Bill Kelly]

Check out NASA’s World Wind program. It’s very similar in design to Google Earth and is completely free to use the public domain images. You can zoom, pan, tilt to you find the way you want your image to be, do a PRINT SCR and take a screen shot, put it in FCP and then keyframe movement.

From their FAQ page:

Are images on World Wind copyrighted?

The Landsat Global Mosaic, Blue Marble, and the USGS raster maps and images are all Public Domain.

Can I use images on World Wind for commercial purposes?

Some of the datasets that World Wind has access to are in the ‘Public Domain’ and can be used for commercial purposes (but generally not the actual data servers), however, some datasets, including 3rd-party add-ons/plugins may have their own terms-of-use which could prohibit commercial use of their products and services.

The link is https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html

Link to Landsat image of Mt. St. Helens: https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/graphics/screenshots/08.jpg

[David Smith]

Try these guys:
https://www.mapresources.com/

Regards,
David

[Kevin Monahan]

[KelMedia] “Check out NASA’s World Wind program. It’s very similar in design to Google Earth and is completely free to use the public domain images. You can zoom, pan, tilt to you find the way you want your image to be, do a PRINT SCR and take a screen shot, put it in FCP and then keyframe movement.”
No OS X? Shucks.

Kevin Monahan
Take My FCP Master’s Workshop!
fcpworld.com
Pres. SF Cutters

[David Taylor]

Shane, I know this thread is a hundred years old, but do you have any new ideas about map fly-in’s. I’ve created a few using AE and NASA sat images ( I think video co-pilot has a tut on this), and I’m not sure that I really like all the hoops you have to jump through to use Google Maps (they are not very pretty either). I was looking for an easier solution. Any new thoughts, do you still have a “map” guy you could recommend?