retroplasma/earth-reverse-engineering

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A reverse-engineering project documenting and implementing access to Google Earth's undocumented 3D satellite mode, including URL structures, octree geo-coordinate conversion, and Protobuf asset formats. It ships a C++/WebAssembly flycam client and a JavaScript model exporter for extracting 3D meshes and textures.

Use cases

• extract 3D models of cities from Google Earth
• build a custom flycam viewer for Google's 3D satellite imagery
• decode Google Earth Rocktree protobuf meshes and textures
• convert geographic coordinates to octant paths in Google's octree
• export Google Maps 3D tiles for use in game engines
• research undocumented Google Earth API endpoints

When to choose

• you need programmatic access to Google Earth's 3D satellite meshes and textures
• you want to study or extend reverse-engineering of Google's Rocktree format
• you need a lightweight client or exporter without photogrammetry tooling

When to avoid

• you need a supported, officially documented Google Maps 3D API
• you require a maintained project with a license and active updates
• you need production-grade or legally cleared usage of Google's imagery data

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

reverse-engineering parser graphics web-scraping serialization reverse-engineering graphics cpp wasm cross-platform google-earth google-maps 3d-tiles octree protobuf rocktree mesh-extraction photogrammetry gis maps geospatial 3d-models javascript

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