From the excellent Google Earth Blog, Frank links to another great example of what the process of democratising technology has achieved. A group of guys launched a fully instrumented sensor package below a helium balloon, which was tracked in real time using google earth and produced some stunning images. The video on their site of …
For the first time in my many trips to the valley, I felt the earth move this evening as the San Francisco Bay area experienced a moderate earthquake. Of course as soon as I could I looked online at the USGS site, and within minutes the KML of the epicentre was there to view – …
As with all software Easter Eggs who first finds them is open to debate, Marco’s Blog a blog by a South African student has at least been reported in a couple of places.. Well it’s a bit of fun, and actually if you are into to VFR flying (looking out of the windows rather than …
We were joking in the office last week, while preparing for the launch of sky in Goggle earth, how long would it take for somebody to mash-up the USS enterprise somewhere in the universe. Well we were close in our estimates,Captain Kirk was found within a few hours ! Written and submitted from home, using …
After the buzz has died down about the new sky feature in Earth, I personally think one of the most useful new features is the ability to place images in the landscape, matching the perspective of the location from which they where taken. The new photooverlay element in KML 2.2 is used to great effect …
Stefan Geens the man behind the fantastic Ogle Earth blog, has put together an amazing DIY TV show using Google Earth and Wirecast. Everyday the tools that where once only in the hands of the professionals are now available to the professional-amateur, although I think Stefan may have another career on IPTV waiting for him! …
This week I sat in on a course run by the Royal Geographical Society to train teachers to use Google Earth in their classes. The course was excellent and will run again in October and is highly recommended. In talking to some of the teachers we soon got on to the topic of the impact …
Despite a few hiccups with the latest Plazer client, I’m sticking with my experiment of using Plazes to track my presence and location. I’m glad I have because, the very interested data behind plazes has now been exposed in the form of a plazes KML file. This is really neat, by logging in you can …
Projects like OpenStreetMap have proved that it is possible to replicate professional ground survey using low cost consumer grade GPS to create vector data sets that have the potential to complete with commercial datasets. Today I came across a website which describes a technology that could do the same for aerial imagery. Pict’Earth describe combining …
As a follow up to the Google Developer Day event last week , Silicon.com has a great article on the adoption of mash-up culture at the BBC and their brilliant backstage project. For other content owning organisations BBC Backstage sets a great example highlighting the way that forward thinking licensing of information can really aid …
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