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Could Google Sketchup be used to place a photograph into Google Earth to look kind of like a billboard?

• A series of such billboards would make a virtual world one could walk through. I want the image to show up in Google Earth. It is geotagged and has compass orientation. Could that data be added to Google Sketchup as the "texture" on a flat image and be placed so it can be seen in Google earth? If I understand right, things made in Google Sketchup can be placed into Google Earth. Here is my source data: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebosque/tags/virtualbosque/ Anyone want to give it a shot? Some images are panoramas, which could be placed as textures on a circular wall around the point of view. It would be better if that was handled automatically of course based on Flickr photos with such data. It looks like Microsoft will beat Google Earth on this functionality with showing photos using . But for now, is there a way to hack pictures into Google Earth using Google Sketchup?

• Answer:

  Yes, that would work exactly as you desire. The curved wall is going to be tricky to do in just SketchUp. You might need to pull the photo out to an image editor and cut it into segments, since there is not real curve in SketchUp, just a "curving" segmented wall. And once the models are in Google Earth, you could adjust their position so that the billboards line up better.