touchEarth – Control Google Earth With Your Fingertips

By James Fee | Published: January 6, 2008

On Friday the Google Summer of Code Blog posted very interesting news about touchEarth created by Pawel Solyga.

touchEarth, an application he developed that allows you to control Google Earth using two finger gestures on multi-touch table. touchEarth uses the Google Earth COM API to control some of Google Earth’s features, while all the multi-touch screen events are sent to touchEarth from touchlib (or OpenTouch) using the TUIO protocol.

Most of us have seen these multi-touch interfaces before with the ESRI touch table but allowing Google Earth to be controlled this way will get this technology into more places. Of course I’m not exactly looking forward to everyone dragging their greasy hands across my MacBook Pro in a few years but coupled with that LG Touch LCD Screen we could be seeing some really interesting implementations moving forward.

Video after the jump.

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4 Comments

  1. bender
    Posted January 7, 2008 at 2:28 am | Permalink

    looks like feldenkrais.

  2. Chris C.
    Posted January 7, 2008 at 8:18 am | Permalink

    I can think of a few programs I’d like a single finger gesture interface.

  3. realvision
    Posted January 21, 2008 at 7:22 am | Permalink

    hmm.. nice if you still have a Minority report hangover. But i predict that for serious use, your going to end up with serious hand fatigue or similiar.

    I’d much rather use a 3d input device liek the spacenavigator.

  4. M.NITTO
    Posted June 1, 2008 at 3:50 am | Permalink

    hi i have started using touchlib latey and i was wondering if ,i can get touchearth app for touchlib.any1 knows how i can plx rply by mail

    thankyou

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