Google Earth

Here are the placemarks of some interesting places and sights that can be viewed with Google Earth (free download here) or any other GIS-type program that can read KML/KMZ files.

If you have Google Earth installed on your computer, clicking on these links will open Google Earth and take you to the place. You can also right-click on the link and save the placemark file (.KMZ format) to your hard drive for later viewing.

If you don't have Google Earth installed on your machine, you can go to Google Maps in a web browser and paste the URL of the placemark file that you want to view into the Google Maps search box.

Enjoy!

General Interest

• • The Federal Bullion Depository in Fort Knox

  • A North Korean missile launch site

  • The London Eye, a giant Ferris wheel

  • Storage locations of the US nuclear arsenal (in 2006)

  • Nuclear effects visualization for various scenarios

  • North Korean military installations (as of 2009)

  • A bicycle route across the United States, from Seattle to Maine

Personal Placemarks

• • Scenic sights in and around southwest Germany

  • A former special weapons storage facility I helped guard while I was in the German Army

  • The waypoint database of the FMARS 2003 simulated Mars mission

  • The waypoint database of the MDRS 2005 simulated Mars mission

  • The waypoint database of the MDRS 2006 simulated Mars mission

  • GPS track of 2006 transatlantic crossing on board the QM2

  • Animated GPS track of my team in the "Raccoongaine 2012" and "Raccoongaine 2014" orienteering races

  • Course of the 2012 Pittsburgh Marathon, and the GPS track from my cell phone

  • Useful waypoints for sailing in the U.S. Virgin Islands (as of 2022), also as a GPX file for direct import into chartplotters