exporter

Model exporter

We can dump a textured 3D model (*.obj with *.bmp and *.jpg) using the following scripts. They require Node.js v8 and npm:

# Install dependencies (tested with node@8.15.0, npm@6.4.1)
npm install

# Find octant of latitude and longitude
node lat_long_to_octant.js 37.420806884765625 -122.08419799804688

# Dump octant with max-level 20
node dump_obj.js 20527061605273514 20

Exported files will be in ./downloaded_files/obj. They can be opened in Blender like this.

Notes

Alternative methods for finding octants:

• LexSong wrote a Python script that takes bounding box coordinates to find octants: LexSong/earth-reverse-engineering-utils
• Manually: Open maps and dev tools, switch to satellite, fly to destination, search for NodeData, copy octant path from recent request

You can use this to dump json and raw data instead of obj:

node dump_obj.js 20527061605273514 20 --dump-json --dump-raw