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Move polygons (drag rotate) using the mouse. #33

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
In many cases, it is useful to be able to move or drag an entire polygon (all 
vertices) to adjust the position of the polygons.
Currently, the only way to do it is: extracting the lat/lon data from a KML 
file, 
and calculate new coordinates of the vertices using quaternions. But 
it is very painful compared to drag/rotate with a mouse. 
The goal is to select a polygon (all vertices), then move it or rotate it at 
the surface, using the mouse, without changing the altitude of vertices and 
distances between vertices.

Many thanks!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by stephane...@gmail.com on 7 Jan 2011 at 5:52

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
This is very important to the useability of the Earth API

Original comment by MarkWLov...@gmail.com on 4 Feb 2011 at 3:03

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Moving a polygon without having to rebuild it would be very nice.  Currently 
takes too much time to create 10-20nm square polygons.

Original comment by dworle...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2011 at 3:48

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I agree.  It seems to be a basic function that is missing from google earth. 
Duplicating a features occurs often, and so I want to copy a feature and place 
the copy in a new location rather than having to draw it every time (especially 
circles).  Also an automatic circle, rectangle and square tool would be useful.
Thanks.

Original comment by davis...@gmail.com on 10 May 2011 at 3:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Yes Please.  i have been wanting to do this for ages, in many different ways 
for many purposes.  I suspect the secret is to simply convert the polygon from 
coordinate based to vector based with anchor coordinates. The complication will 
be moving shapes from equatorial regions to polar regions requires a lot of 
re-cordinating.

Original comment by GraemeMc...@gmail.com on 31 May 2011 at 11:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
The ability to move a polygon or path within Google Earth without jumping thru 
a bunch of hoops that only the computer techs know, would greatly enhance 
Google’s user friendly philosophy.

Original comment by bustyrol...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2011 at 2:55

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
its very important to move and rotate feature

Original comment by tridevac...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2011 at 5:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I'd like to see this feature too.

Original comment by mspara...@sea-waves.net on 10 Jun 2012 at 1:22

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
It would be nice to be able to create circles and polygons at fixed ground 
dimensions using the ruler tool (or an interface that lets the user specify the 
radius, height, width) and then be able to drag them to the desired location.

Original comment by gregnle...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2012 at 6:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Yes, this would be an extremely useful feature I would like to see as well.

Original comment by wfa...@gmail.com on 21 Jul 2012 at 7:06

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Yes, please add this!

Original comment by dprie...@gmail.com on 18 Nov 2012 at 10:25

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I am constantly duplicating building footprints - very tedious. Would love to 
be able to duplicate, and then move a polygon to a new location.

Original comment by lklanc...@gmail.com on 2 Jan 2013 at 8:38

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Even Openstreetmap editors have this ability,

Original comment by jidanni@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2013 at 3:48

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I use Google Earth to set up air dispersion modeling and this would be an 
EXTREMELY helpful feature.

Original comment by andy.hol...@aecom.com on 1 Nov 2013 at 1:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I concur, this will be a very useful feature.  As an example, I work at an 
airport and have drawn a polygon and extended it surface to a specific height.  
It is a polygon that represents an airfield fuel tank at the fuel farm.  We 
have many tanks and I would prefer not to have to redraw each of them when in 
fact all of them are the same size and height configuration.  I would like to 
simply copy the polygon, rename it from Tank 1 to Tank 2 and move the Tank 2 
polygon into its appropriate location.

Original comment by dmaviat...@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2013 at 4:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
http://www.barnabu.co.uk/geapi/polyplot/

Great program!

Original comment by dmaviat...@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2013 at 5:10