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Tilesets: Google
Earth Structure

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You can convert very large images or image collections into tilesets for use in Google Earth using the Auto Mosaic and Export to Tilesets processes in TNTmips. A Google Earth tileset created in these processes conforms to the Super-Overlay structure, Google's term for a tiled, multi-resolution image that provides the most efficient and responsive 3D perspective viewing of your very large images in Google Earth.

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Publish your

maps   plans   mosaics

- View in Bing Maps

- View in Google Maps

- View in TNTmips 2010

* View as layer

* Edit for features

* View in stereo

Technical Guides updated:08-Feb-2010

TNT v2010 cd

This feature list updated: 28 January 2010

link arrow  Easy Web Publication of Your Geodata

(no special web service required, only TNTmips!)

- new Geomashup process
*available now for Google Maps
*available now for Bing Maps
*coming soon for Google Earth

- creates complete HTML/JavaScript web page

- instant preview of page in any browser
(Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, ...)

- add Google or Bing proprietary layers1

- add public web tilesets ...
*Microimages 10 meter global coverage
*MicroImages 1 meter USA coverage
*Osmarender open streets
*Mapnik open streets
*CycleMap open streets

- add your tilesets as base or overlay layers
*Google Maps Tile Overlays
*Microsoft Bing Maps Custom Tile Layers
*Google Earth Super-Overlays

- add KML graphic overlays

- add Google, Bing, and custom gadgets
(layer controls, layer transparency slider, zoom box, address lookup, ...)

- your tilesets can be located on your web site

- add tilesets located anywhere on the Internet

- zip entire geomashup as ready-to-go web page
(packages mashup, tilesets, KML, gadgets, ...)

- unzipping installs geomashup page on web site

[ 1A Google or Microsoft license is required to use their proprietary map and image tilesets outside of a browser. Since the Geomashup process assembles them for use in your browser, their use in this fashion - as part of a web mashup - is permitted.]

link arrow  Redesigned Geodata Selection Dialog

- completely new layout

- more efficient controls

- choose detail or list form

- select/add tilesets, files, objects, folders

- open each folder using directory tree

- create list of favorite folders

- select multiple items in list
(shift-click for range, control-click for items)

- delete selected items in list
(tilesets, files, or objects)

- smart 'add-all' folder search
(finds specified item type, even subfolders)

- sort by name, date, size, type

- displays number of items listed/selected

black arrow  Interactive Query Builder for Display

- automatically builds query as items selected

- opens input table

- builds queries using numeric or string fields

- select from comparison operators for string fields

- select from numeric operators for computations

- pick constants and other modifiers from lists

- interactively build nested query expressions

- automatically checks query syntax

link arrow  Create Tilesets for Popular Geoviewers

- TNTmips creates/uses these tileset structures ...
*Google Maps Tile Overlays
*Microsoft Bing Maps Custom Tile Layers
*Google Earth Super-Overlays
*NASA World Wind Tile Layers

- mosaic directly into these tilesets

- export to tilesets

- merge tilesets

- render geometric layers to tilesets

- manage tilesets

link arrow  Immediately View Any Tileset

- Every tileset process creates these HTML files
*Google Maps Tile Overlays
*Bing Maps Custom Tile Layers
*Google Earth Super-Overlays

- click each HTML file to view tileset in browser

- every tileset process also creates a TNT link

- select TNT link to add tileset to a TNT view

- all processes create or update all these links

link arrow  Directly Use Tilesets in Any TNT View

- select and add as a single entity

- use same as any other reference layer
* interpret in TNT Spatial Editor
* add control points in georeferencing
* 3D viewing in Stereo (e.g., anaglyph)

- control panel applies enhancements
(transparency, shaded relief, filtering, ...)

- select any TNT supported tileset structure

- select anyone's standard tileset
(e.g., the open streets tilesets are standard)

- select from local or network sources

- build a TNT link to anyone's standard tileset2

- select TNT link to any Internet tileset

[ 2A Google or Microsoft license is required to use their proprietary map and image tilesets outside of a browser. Creating and using a TNT link to these tilesets is easy, but these link files are not provided by MicroImages.]

link arrow  Add OpenStreetMap Tilesets to View

- uses fast, public Google/Bing street tilesets

- overlay street map on any view and location
(Mapnik, Osmarender, or Cycle Map tilesets)

- set street map transparency level

- set street map background to be transparent

link arrow  Add 10-meter Global Landsat to View

- circa 2000 enhanced imagery

- uses MicroImages' fast Google/Bing tilesets

- add any area at any zoom as a layer

- georeference any medium-resolution image

- extract geometric features by editing

link arrow  Add 1-meter USA Orthophotos to View

- 2009/2008 imagery via fast Google/Bing tilesets

- USDA/NRCS State level orthoimages

- add any area at any zoom as a layer

- georeference any high resolution imagery

- extract geometric features by editing

- view any area/scale in stereo

link arrow  Auto Mosaic Tilesets

- assemble many images into a tileset for
*Google Maps Tile Overlays
*Google Earth Super-Overlays
*Bing Maps Custom Tile Layers
*NASA's World Wind Tile Layers
*MicroImages raster object tileset

- use Job Processing to process many in parallel

- input mixed CRSs and cell sizes

- select overlap method

- clip each input using a region with buffer

- limit output to a region with buffer
(e.g., clip to an irregular province outline)

link arrow  Export Tilesets

- convert any size orthoimage to tileset
(grayscale, composite, or multiband)
*for Google Maps for browser or iPhone
*for TNT and Google Earth
*for Microsoft's Bing Maps
*for NASA's World Wind

- use Job Processing to process many in parallel

link arrow  Merge Tilesets

- efficiently build a very large tileset for
*Google Maps Tile Overlays
*Google Earth's Super-Overlays
*Bing Maps Custom Tile Layers
*NASA's World Wind Tile Layers

- maintain different resolutions of inputs

- clip each input tileset using a region with buffer

- limit output to a region with a buffer
(e.g., use to extract a tileset from a tileset)

- use Job Processing to process many in parallel

black arrow  Render to Tilesets (pending)

- from CAD, vector, or shape objects

- control elements to draw
(select by query, interaction, region, scale, ...)

- draws into files using styles, symbols, ...

- specify tile zoom levels to draw

black arrow  Tileset Manager

- add new zoom levels

- edit link to a tileset

- delete selected zoom level or tileset

- validate a tileset's contents/structure

- link to tilesets produced by other products

- delete or copy tileset

black arrow  Reclassify Points in LIDAR LAS File

- select points by any TNT selection method
(by interactive tools, query, current class(es),...)

- select points from layer in 2D or profile view

- assign new class from class menu

black arrow  Image Band Correlation

- rewritten using new 2D correlation plots

- view plot of any 2 bands

- view all possible 2 band plots at once

- highlight points in plot from image in display

- select point or group of points in plot

- highlight matching cells in display from plot

- directly displays correlation statistics

- select group of points in 2D view

- make a mask for points selected in plot

- automatically use bands from color composites

black arrow  Job Processing

- auto mosaic provides job processing

- use in every tileset creation/management process

- new job management features

- schedule jobs to repeat in background

- run scripts repetitively to refresh results

black arrow  Cascading Picklists

- [currently under development]

black arrow  Geocatalogs

- update catalogs automatically

- include geocoded photos (JPEG with EXIF)

- include GeoPDF and Adobe's georeferenced PDF

- include tilesets

black arrow  SML

- create LAS file

- reclassify LAS records

- read any supported tileset structure

- create any supported tileset structure

- merge tileset structures

- render geometric geodate into tilesets

Technical Guides updated: updated:29-Jul-2009

TNT v2010 cd

released March 2009

link arrow  Job Processing

- mix multiple TNT processes

- run SML Scripts

- uses multiple computer cores

link arrow  Picklists for geometric attributes

- one click to assign

- add to existing fields

- set up using wizard

link arrow  Geoprovisioning

- via Intranet or Internet

link arrow  Select Geodata from Catalogs

- build catalogs of available geodata

- directly select layers from catalog

- search to match view, region

black arrow  Google Maps Tile Overlay

(this is Google Maps' native tileset)

- mosaic directly into this tileset

- create very large custom overlays

- PNG or JPG tiles in mercator projection

- makes HTML to launch via website or DVD

black arrow  Google Earth Super-Overlay

(this is Google Earth's native tileset)

- mosaic directly into this tileset

- create custom overlays or base maps

- PNG, JPG, or mixed tiles in Lat/Long

- creates KML file to launch as overlay

link arrow  Smooth traced lines

link arrow  Real time panning

- improved since v74

link arrow  Mosaic multiband tilesets

link arrow  Smooth stereo views

- surface layer automatically smoothed

black arrow  LIDAR tool kit

- link to LAS files

- profile tool for LIDAR points

- export LIDAR points to LAS files

black arrow  SML

- launch other products using command line

- convert layout to georeferenced PDF

- use scripts in Multicore Job Processing

- use separate scripts for I/O processing

Detailed information on the properties, use, and publication of Google and Bing Maps, Google Earth, and NASA's World Wind with TNTmips

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