KML can be used to create some historical maps for certain areas.ġ0. Sketchup images can be placed on Google Earth, and those can be shared on the Sketchup 3D warehouse.ĩ. Realtime networked KMLs can be created by folks, and a group in New York () has a great example.Ĩ. (An example of one layer someone created was one that points towards locations involving the State Funeral for President Ford.)ħ. The current events section of the Google Earth Community is pretty intriguing. Anyone can become a member of the community, though it is moderated.Ħ. Google Earth Community will host your layers for you.
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Jessica Pfund works on the layers aspect of Google Earth, so the video goes into a lot of detail on how to use layers. Google for Educators has a section on Google Earth.ĥ. Jessica suggests using the tutorial there if you’re interested in creating and sharing KMLs with other folks.Ĥ. Keyhole Markup Language (KML), allows you to do much more, in both Google Earth and Google Maps. You can use html to link to pictures in those descriptions. You can make your own icons for those, and use HTML in the description which appears in the popup maps. You can make your own maps which you can share with other people. Layers used in Google Earth are streamed from the Internet, though some of them can be cached.ģ. Google Likes to think about Google Earth as if it were a “geographic browser,” and it’s possible to do business/local searches within the geographical boundaries of a view as well as web, news and image searches about a place from the map that springs up from a place found on Google Earth.Ģ. Some interesting aspects of Google Earth discussed (mostly) on the video:ġ. Jessica Pfund has been exploring and working on Google Earth for almost a year, and she introduces us to some of the things we can do with Google Earth (after we find our homes and maybe where we work), in the Google Video: Google Earth: Beyond Your Backyard (link to the Google Video)
The current events section of the Google Earth Community is an awesome feature, and the way that some environmental groups are using Google Earth is worth looking at.
There’s a lot of stuff going on with Google Earth that I wasn’t aware of, and the layers are definitely worth exploring. There are a lot of potential things that web designers and developers can do with Google Earth that look like they could be fun, and could attract some visitors to a site.Ĭhecking through new videos in the Google Tech Talk series, I noticed one on Google Earth I hadn’t seen before from November 21, 2006. I’m glad I spent some time looking more deeply at Google Earth tonight. I had heard about new layers being added to Google Earth a few weeks back, but really hadn’t explored them.
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