Do you sometimes need some animations of Google Earth imagery for your videos? For example to show the surroundings of your vacation accommodation or animate the route of your road trips.

If yes, then Google Earth Studio is the perfect solution for you.

Google Earth Studio is an animation tool for Google Earth’s 3D and satellite imagery.

Especially in cities with good 3D building coverage you can create animations that looks like real helicopter or drone shots.

Have a look at some examples here:

Currently Google Earth Studio is available as a closed preview, but I got my account activated within a few days.

The tool is completely browser based. This means you only need the latest version of Chrome. No software installation needed.

If you are new to animation tools you should follow the tutorial videos here:

Meine Highlights des Jahres 2019 in Stichworten und Bildern:

Urlaube

• Skifahren Stubaital
• Schweiz
• Schottland
• Sri Lanka
• Brüssel
• New York City

Dienstreisen

• Austin
• Frankfurt
• München
• Erlangen
• Berlin
• Köln
• Rotterdam
• Las Vegas

Ausflüge

• Baden-Baden - “Love is in the Bin” und Battert
• Gimmeldingen zur Mandelblüte
• Frankfurt
• Schlosslichtspiele
• Maislabyrinth
• Pfalz
• Schönbuchturm

Konzerte

• Madsen - 22.02.2019 Substage
• Das Fest 2019
• Ed Sheeran - 23.06.2019 Hockenheimring
• Tocotronic - 08.11.2019 ZKM

Sport

• 510km Rennrad
• 380km Laufen

Technik

• Mac Mini
• Bose QuietControl 30
• Mendix
• AirPods

If you want to develop and deploy a Mendix/MindSphere app, you will find a lot of helpful documentation how to do this.
Either on the MindSphere documentation or on the Mendix documentation website.

These guides describe how to run a Mendix application inside the integrated CloudFoundry environment on MindSphere.

But what if you want to do it the other way around?

Run the Mendix app in the Mendix cloud and integrate this app in MindSphere.

Is this possible? Yes. This is possible with the so called Selfhosted application feature of MindSphere.

What you need to do is the following:

1. You need the MindSphere Outbound traffic upgrade
2. Develop a Mendix/MindSphere app. The easiest way to do this is by using the Siemens MindSphere Starter Application from the Mendix Marketplace
3. Deploy the app to the Mendix cloud
4. Register the app with the external URL as a selfhosted application inside MindSphere
5. Set the correct CSP header
6. Set the correct MindSphere roles/scopes
7. Start the application via the MindSphere Launchpad

Through this way you benefit from all the nice features of the Mendix cloud, like:

• One-Click deployment
• Detailed monitoring and logging
• Easy debugging

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Demo

If you want to learn more about Low-Coding with Mendix, create your account on Mendix.com today…

Schon seit langem wollte ich eine digitale Weltkarte bauen, auf der alle Länder markiert sind in denen ich schon einmal gewesen bin.

Jetzt habe ich mir endlich mal die Zeit genommen, dieses Projekt umzusetzen.
Zuerst dachte ich eher an eine Google Maps Karte auf die ich per Marker, Overlays, Shapes oder Data layer auf komplizierte Art die Länder via Maps API markieren muss.

Zum Glück bin ich bei der Recherche über die Google Charts API gestolpert.
Dort gibt es die Funktion GeoChart.

Genau das was ich gesucht habe. Damit war die Implementierung sehr einfach. Das Ergebnis gibt es hier: Meine Weltkarte