Google Earth Workshops

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Background

These materials were originally produced for workshops presented as part of the Society for Economic Botany annual meeting in June, 2008.  The intent these materials is to help a person explore and learn about Google Earth independently.

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Agenda

Why use Google Earth?  Here are a few obvious uses.

Part 1: Getting Acquainted with Google Earth

• Skill Levels
• Google Earth vs. Google Maps
  
• Google Earth is an Atlas: an Introduction to Searching
• Google Earth is not (just) an Atlas: Google Earth Layers
  
• The Places Menus
  
• KML (the language that runs applications)
• Great Applications
• Basic Settings
  

Part 2: Finding, Marking and Evaluating Places

• Searching
• Placemarks
• Measurements

Part 3: Using Photos in the Context of Google Earth

• Geographic Coordinates
• Photos & Georeferencing
• GPS

Part 4: Supplying Locations and Visualization
 
Part 5: Viewing Information in a Spatial Context

• Overlaying information
• Saving Google Earth maps

Going Beyond

• Data Visualization: Open Source GIS & Google Earth

Useful Web Resources