More goodies with Google Earth!
This week we're putting the finishing touches on some new Google Earth enhancements.
Google Earth, in case you didn't know, is a 3D model of the earth, complete with sattelite imagery, that you can scroll around, rotate, zoom in and zoom out of. Combine that with the ability for third parties to add in their own data on TOP of that model, and "voila!"... instant data access interface!
fboweb.com was the first flight tracker to integrate its tracking data with Google Earth, and we continue to innovate with this amazing tool.
To check out a demo of what's discussed here, you can click to this link for starters... but many of the features of fboweb.com are already integrated with this program.
What we're getting ready to push to the live servers this week are the ability to view NEXRAD radar images overlaid on top of the planet (for US and surrounding areas only), and the ability to view a flights complete "planned route".
The "display routes" function is still a bit shakey, so we're going to continue to work on it. There's a lot of variation in the format of the routing, so it takes a bit of work to make it manage every instance. Whoever came up with that whole process certainly was a twit.
As usual, stay tuned for additional news :-)