Reading Time: < 1 minThe Google Earth Blog points us to a few new tutorials about using KML. The first is all about time animations, including the London Eye and Frank Taylor’s Blue Marble. The second deals with using KML in the Google Mashup Editor. The full story in the Google Earth Blog goes into more detail explaining each […]
Google Earth/Maps
Georgia Drought
Reading Time: < 1 minI’ve just created a KMZ (and posted it on Google Earth Hacks) that highlights some of the newsworthy locations related to the Georgia Drought. It includes placemarks for things like Buford Dam on Lake Lanier and the Farley Nuclear power plant in Alabama. It also includes an overlay showing the watershed areas for the area […]
California wildfires in Google Earth
Reading Time: < 1 minFrank Taylor at the Google Earth Blog points us to an image overlay made using NOAA imagery of the fires in San Diego, California. It really shows a significant amount of smoke coming from the fires. You can download the file here, or you can visit the Google Earth Blog for more information.
Steve Irwin easter egg in Google Earth
Reading Time: < 1 minFrank at the Google Earth Blog points us to a fun little easter egg in Google Earth – Steve Irwin (the late “Crocodile Hunter”) in front of the Sydney Opera House in Australia. To find him, simply turn on the 3D buildings layer, search for “Sydney Opera House” and look near the water on the […]
YouTube videos now a layer in Google Earth
Reading Time: < 1 minAs reported by the Google Earth Blog, there is now a new layer in Google Earth for geotagged YouTube videos. In the Windows version of GE the videos appear right in the description bubbles; in the Mac and Linux versions you get a link to view the video in a browser. It works like most […]
10 best new features in Google Earth since its release
Reading Time: 3 minWhen Google Earth was first released, there was talk about it everywhere and they were overwhelmed with downloads. Since then, it’s become more and more popular. However, I’m sure there are a lot of folks that downloaded it two years ago, checked it out a little bit, and then haven’t gone back in. Here’s what […]
1,000 posts in GEboards
Reading Time: < 1 minIt only took a single week to have over 1,000 posts appear on GEboards. That was quick! Some cities are already looking nicely annotated. How’s yours?
The official answers to Google’s latest quiz
Reading Time: < 1 minThe Google Latlong blog has posted the answers to Google’s latest imagery release quiz. It appears that Frank and company at the Google Earth Blog did a pretty good job. Check out the answers (with some screenshots).
The first fully in-Earth message board
Reading Time: < 1 minOver on Google Earth Hacks we’ve just released GEboards, a completely in-Earth message board. Following the release of Google Earth version 4.2, we realized that we could use the Flash player to accept text input in Google Earth. Many lines of code later, we have GEboards. Once you load the KML, you can create threads […]
The Swastika building is getting a face-lift
Reading Time: < 1 min(found via Natural Search Blog) One of the first odd finds that we posted on Google Earth Hacks back in mid-2005 was a building in California that was shaped like a Swastika. Since that time, it’s been downloaded from GEH over 8,000 times. The same image on Flickr has been viewed over 16,000 times. Chris […]