PCH Trip Google Earth Topographic Fly Through, With Photo's

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Fun with Google Earth, a digital camera, a Lotus Elise, and too much time

If you saw my other post you already know I recently took a trip up PCH to San Francisco from Los Angeles. I was messing about with google earth and was able to set up a topographic fly through of the trip with photo's I took along the way. It's a little involved to set up but I think you'll like the results. here's what you need to do to watch the show:

1) Download the attached file and extract PCH-trip-12-2007.kmz from
the .zip archieve & open it with Google earth.
2) In Google Earth this will load under Places/Temporary Places/PCH-trip-12-2007
3) On the top bar under tools -> options -> touring set the following values:

Tour Speed = 0.075
Tour Pause = 5.0

check the box ON for "Show balloon when tour is paused"

4) Under layers turn on terrain and borders and labels, turn off all other layers.

5) Select PCH-trip-12-2007 under places and push play under places.

Don't have google earth? download it here:
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

Link to the original post about the trip:
Your Favorite PCH (Highway 1) Hole in the Wall Destinations, LA->SF

Hope you enjoy it and have a great holiday everyone! And thanks special thanks to those of you that gave me some great places to stop along the way.

Sean

[drstvk]

Awesome trip, Sean. Great pics. The view on Google Earth is amazing.
I 've done this trip many times, just never get to do it in my Lotus. I guess I'll have to put it on the schedule for this spring.

Thanks for the look.

Steve