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       Show HN: Mult.dev - zero-config alternative to Google Earth studio
        
       The powerful tool to create travel/geo infographics and animated
       maps. You can even add the stickers on the planet!  Example
       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq_DvPoCMmM
        
       Author : takoynik
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2022-12-11 18:58 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | trasz2 wrote:
       | Google likes to (semi-legally) kill other people software they
       | don't like, like they killed Gaia, the Open Source Google Earth
       | client (which was, in many ways, technically superior to
       | Google's, btw.)
        
         | MilStdJunkie wrote:
         | That makes me worry how long we'll have gmaps data in
         | BlenderGIS. Although the OSM data is pretty dang good; less
         | chance of running into some godforsaken royalty thingamabob.
         | 
         | Speaking of which, BlenderGIS would be a pretty neat geo viz
         | platform for presentations. Bit too much of a learning curve
         | for Normal People though.
        
         | takoynik wrote:
         | It's not a google earth client. We have our own engine. We only
         | use the directions/geocoding apis from google, but probably
         | going to alternatives
        
       | jadams84 wrote:
       | The video output is strikingly beautiful, even at default
       | settings. How are you generating the videos? Is that server-side,
       | or some third-party service?
       | 
       | Once settings get changed, the generator seems overloaded as each
       | change takes considerably more to create the video and eventually
       | it just spins forever.
        
         | takoynik wrote:
         | Hi! Thank you for feedback! We use our own engine on Unity to
         | render videos on the server, and yeah it's highloaded now. We
         | don't have the same resources as google earth, unfortunately.
        
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