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PhotoOverlay <gx:highResolution> #382

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This feature would allow high-resolution PhotoOverlays during Google Earth 
navigation.

Currently, Google Earth downsamples a PhotoOverlay image to (what looks to me 
like) a 256x256 pixel texture, then scales that low-res/low-quality texure as 
the viewer approaches. It only uses the full-res image if you suspend 
navigation and use the special zoom & pan PhotoOverlay UI.

Setting <gx:highResolution> to 1 would tell Google Earth to use (up to) the 
maximum supported texture size for the PhotoOverlay during navigation. This 
attribute would default to 0 (disabled) for backwards compatibility.

For example: On my laptop the maximum texture size is 2048x2048, so it could 
easily display full-res images that fill the entire screen at 1:1. In practice, 
most of my geotagged photos in KML are only 640x480 or 1024x768, not even close 
to the texture limit.

Slightly more background in this post:
http://groups.google.com/group/kml-support-advanced/browse_thread/thread/32ed33e
3564d5105/b3949798d382324a#b3949798d382324a

Thanks for your consideration.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jef...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2011 at 3:31

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by jli...@google.com on 22 Apr 2011 at 9:56