Middle Earth Viewer – Using Google Earth

I loaded my MP3 files of Lord of the Rings onto Justine’s iPhone, and I will be living in Middle Earth for the next couple of weeks. I will get back to reading books as soon as this mental vacation is over.

I used the image cutter at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis to make a Google Earth interface for a large map of Middle Earth that I found.

It split it up into 5000 or so small images and will finish uploading in about an hour. In the mean time, the map will only partially load.

The splitter software creates the html file used to display it. The only drawback is that you have to override the Java default memory usage to make it work for very large images.

Command line that I finally used was:

java -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m -jar “GMapImageCutter.jar”

Middle Earth Viewer