It was just one of these casual quick hacks (about 10 lines of code), but QGroundControl now also allows to use Google Earth for visualization, including the new trees feature. We're just in the beginning of the integration, a binary including this feature should be available next week.
While Google Earth is very shiny, it does not allow adding additional visualization components with the same degrees of freedom as OpenSceneGraph and osgEarth. We will therefore push the OpenSceneGraph/osgEarth integration further, as osgEarth also allows for better offline use without internet connection. As our MAVs collect aerial images, osgEarth allows to directly render them into the scene (as 3D mapping), a feature missing in Google Earth. But since we now support the best of both worlds, QGroundControl users have all choices at hand.
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Same as above, I have struggled to find out how to display google earth with qgroundcontrol, I can't figure it out at all. any advice? . os x 10.9. the manual is no help. it will be awesome when this is all working.
I have QGC version 2.0.0 on both a Windows 7 and 8 computer. I have trying to find in the program the ability to use Goggle Earth 3D. It is noted in the operator manual, but I don't seem to be able to locate or if you have to build a widget to get QGC and GE 3D to work together...any advise?