earthmine pre-collects, processes and hosts street-level, high resolution imagery and its related 3D data, while application developers use earthmine software and tools—coupled with their own creativity—to integrate this base layer into their own applications.
The earthmine Flash Viewer API is ideal for simply integrating real-world places and things into the majority of online applications. For applications requiring programmatic access to imagery and 3D data, the earthmine Direct Data API allows direct access to raw imagery and 3D data to allow users to build customized solutions around the earthmine data platform.
earthmine flash viewer API
create immersive street level applications
For public facing sites, the earthmine Flash Viewer API offers a simple yet powerful model for integrating the earthmine street level experience into web applications via JavaScript and ActionScript. Search by address, keyword, or geo-spatial coordinate, and a panoramic image of that location fills the screen. Integrate existing geographic datasets and view them in the context of the street, or create new geo-referenced tags and links, for location aware documents, images, and other media. Every pixel in each panoramic image provides an accurate latitude, longitude, and altitude making the earthmine API much more than just pretty pictures.
earthmine direct data API
direct access to image and 3D data services
For those that want to utilize the data mine the earthmine Direct Data API offers low level direct access to image and 3D data services. The earthmine data API allows http requests for images based on lat/long or lat/long/elev, as well as advanced 3D coordinate lookup and occlusion testing. Insert your own 3D renderings of objects, perform 3D occlusion testing, and display in an OpenGL viewer - the possibilities are endless for integrating earthmine data libraries to match your geographic application need.
API products will be in private beta during the summer of 2008. Application developers interested in testing these products should apply online.