Reading Time: < 1 min I just showed you how you could add a simple location via the Google Earth plugin to your site, but how about a series of locations? Using EarthSwoop, I thought it’d be neat to show all of the places that we’re sending mission teams this summer. You could do the same thing for local missions, […]
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Build and share collections with EarthSwoop
Reading Time: < 1 min It’s time to roll out a site that a couple of us have been working on for the last few weeks — EarthSwoop! Bits and pieces of the code have been used in some of my other plug-in tools, but this takes it a step further. Using the Google Earth plug-in and a simple interface, […]
Another way to show a neat map on your website
Reading Time: < 1 min A while back I showed you YourMap, an easy way to embed a Google Map on your site. Google now makes it very easy to do that using their normal Maps site, but here’s a new tool — ShareIt. Google has recently released the “Google Earth Plugin”. It’s a free plug-in that runs Google Earth […]
The top 5 ways to embed Google Earth content on your site
Reading Time: 2 min Now that the Google Earth plugin works in Firefox 3 (Windows-only still…), we thought we’d run through some of the best ways to embed Google Earth content on your site. 5. Embed existing files and collections from Google Earth Hacks Google Earth Hacks has over 20,000 files on their site, all of which can be […]
Firefox 3 finally gets the Google Toolbar
Reading Time: < 1 min For those of you that love the Google Toolbar, but have been missing it with Firefox 3, your wait is over! http://www.google.com/toolbar I figured we’d see it updated this week, since the public release of Firefox 3 is scheduled for tomorrow. I also expect we’ll see an update to the Google Earth plug-in very soon, […]
OS independent 3D map of Stockholm released
Reading Time: < 1 min Hitta.se, a Swedish search and mapping site, has just released a 3D map of Stockholm that works in virtually any browser in any operating system. The technology is powered in part by C3 Technologies, who explain their software as follows: The technology is based on high-resolution aerial photography with carefully calibrated cameras. For every picture, […]
Google News now in Google Earth
Reading Time: < 1 min About a month ago, Google added items from the New York Times to Google Earth. Now they’ve taken it a step further by adding Google News entries as well. This is pretty cool. The New York Times addition was cute, but didn’t add much. There simply aren’t enough stories to make it especially useful. However, […]
Google Ocean coming soon?
Reading Time: < 1 min According to an article on CNET News, Google is in the process of building a tool known as “Google Ocean” to map the terrain of the ocean floors. Similar to Google Earth and Maps, Ocean will provide the base data (depth mesh and some imagery), and allow users to populate it with data for things […]
Google Earth vs. Virtual Earth in Denver
Reading Time: 2 min Denver has emerged as one of the flagship cities for both Google Earth and Virtual Earth. Google Earth has built a ton of 3D models in the city, and Virtual Earth has already converted it to “version 2.0” with over 100,000 3D models (as well as 300,000 trees). Therefore, I thought it’d be a good […]
Google Earth 4.3 thoughts, screenshots and a video
Reading Time: 2 min Google Earth 4.3 is just starting to become available. You probably won’t find it through the normal pages yet, but the Google Earth Blog found a clever loophole to allow you to get it now — simply visit this page and you can grab it. My initial thoughts: StreetView is neat, but not very useful. […]