Google Earth
This page is for the presentations March 12.
Looking around on the Google Earth Community group page, I found a great animation that shows the global forest fires for the last five years at several different scales. The network link combines data for the whole world and makes for a nifty show in GE.
This network link uses two Google Maps tags I want to explain. The following is an example:
<Placemark>
<name>California</name>
.
.
.
<TimeSpan>
<begin>1876-08-01</begin>
<end>1878-09-01</end>
</TimeSpan>
</Placemark>
OR
<TimeStamp>
<when>1876</when>
</TimeStamp>
Simple, no?
According to Oggle Earth news core, Berlin is now available for 3D viewing in Google Earth. A Network Link has been set up to allow users to view Berlin's famous downtown buildings in 3D visualization, many of them having been textured. Apparently because it was so popular on its first day of availability, the network link was overloaded so that many could not access the data. This, however, is expected to change by the time we are in class. The project has a website where you can view several snapshots of the data being viewed in GE.
Also from the news core, it's nice to know that when we start working on our projects we'll have access to kml editors in english. Within the last week the first two widely available kml english editors have arrived on scene. One of them is here.
One of the most desired tool these days amongst geographers seems to be something that will convert shapefiles to km. This CONVERTING_SHP_TO_KML.pdf I've found helps you do just that.
Everything is spatial.