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[IDV #LPU-320092]: kmz graphical problems

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  • Subject: [IDV #LPU-320092]: kmz graphical problems
  • Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 08:11:27 -0600
Hi 

> Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\IDV_2.6u2\jre version: 1.6.0_11 
> j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4)
> Description of problem: Hi, I'm having a lot of trouble getting kmz movies to 
> display properly in Google Earth.  They seem to show multiple frames 
> simultaneously and display wierd graphical artifacts.  I've noticed too that 
> the animations appear to display fairly poor quality bitmat 

Could you send in the kmz file you are trying to display. You can upload it 
here:

http://motherlode.ucar.edu/repository/entry/upload?group=e850985a-8a2c-44e3-8a05-e547cfb963a1


images, it would be ideal if it could display nicer vector rendors, though I'm 
not sure if kmz supports vector drawing.  Currently, I'm interested in getting 
nice kmz animations because of the difficulty adding shapefile layers to IDV 
for positional referencing, IDV doesn't handle shapefiles very well and becomes 
quite unstable.

We've thought about doing vector graphics to kmz. However, kmz doesn't support 
that very well - you end up with absolutely huge kmz files.  


As to the shapefiles- we're going to look at adding support for non lat/lon 
projection shapefiles this summer. Can you send us some examples of the 
shapefiles you are using?

Also - what do you mean by the IDV "becomes quite unstable"? Can you send in an 
example of this? Or do you mean the display of the non-lat/lon shapefiles ends 
up being pretty crazy looking?

Thanks,
Jeff



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: LPU-320092
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open