Re: [www-vrml] Google Sketchup (person edition is free)

["Chris 'Xenon' Hanson" <xenon@3dnature.com>]

Sandy Ressler wrote:
> Now that I think of it...wouldn't the "right" way to do this be to 
> create an XSLT transformation that maps between KML and X3D?
> Someone want to whip that out ;-)
> Sandy

  All horizontal coordinates in KML are in geographic WGS84 and vertical coordinates are 
meters I believe. It's kind of a messy way to store data, actually.

  My company just finished writing a KML exporter for our Visual Nature Studio landscape 
visualization software. (Alan -- you can ask Frank how much fun THAT was!) I can tell you 
that KML is a difficult and restrictive file format to work with, much more so than VRML. 
I can attest that a KML to X3D XSLT translator would be very unpleasant.

  Obligatory plug: Here's our KML exporter info:
http://3dnature.com/kml.html

  and info about the rest of our export options, including VRML:
http://www.3dnature.com/scene.html

  and some samples of both:
http://www.3dnature.com/scenesample.html

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     Chris 'Xenon' Hanson | Xenon @ 3D Nature | http://www.3DNature.com/
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