[HN Gopher] Show HN: Get any piece of Google Earth as a single n...
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       Show HN: Get any piece of Google Earth as a single normalized glTF
       3D model
        
       Google released an API in May to get fetch 3D Tiles of anywhere on
       Earth. Using this in standard 3D engines like Blender is tricky
       because (1) the tiles are in a geographic coordinate system (2) you
       get a lot of little tiles at varying quality levels  I wanted to
       simplify this so all you need to do is get an API key, select a map
       region and a zoom level, and get one combined glTF file that you
       can throw into any engine. Especially if you're just prototyping
       and want to see how this data looks in your engine before investing
       in figuring out all the nuances of the API & coordinate system.
       (Note that the API prohibits offline use, as in you can't
       distribute a processed glTF file like this. But you can do this
       preprocessing in memory whenever you're fetching tiles).
        
       Author : OmarShehata
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2023-12-17 16:37 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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