News Roundup: Google Earth Resume/CV, Google Maps Interface to BMW cars. [UPDATED 1530: the BMW video shown below is official - see details below] Google Earth Resume/CV - A young man by the name of Ozgur Alaz in Istanbul has used Google Earth to generate a major marketing coup to further his career. He posted a GE file showing some…
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Population Maps for Google Earth. The Encyclopedia of Earth has an article with information about scientific research on anthropogenic biomes which are defined as: Anthropogenic biomes describe globally-significant ecological patterns within the terrestrial biosphere caused by sustained direct human interaction with ecosystems, including agriculture, urbanization, forestry and other land uses. ...humans have fundamentally altered global patterns of ecosystem form, process,…
Topographical Maps and Other Goodies for Google Earth. A couple of days ago, a Google Earth Community member called 'Forkboy2' made an awesome post of a network link which will provide access to hundreds of maps on his Topographical Maps Archive web site. These maps were designed for use with Google Earth 4 (like the Rumsey Historical Maps collection) and…
Video Tutorials for SketchUp to Google Earth. Two certified SketchUp instructors called Mike Tadros and Alex Oliver have created a number of excellent video tutorials (podcasts) at a web site called go-2-school.com. These videos (Quicktime required) are professional-grade with nice transitions, music, and excellent zooms to show details on user interface sequences. They have chosen broadcast quality resolution (so you…
Happy International Polar Year! Google Earth Presentation. The International Polar Year is a large scientific program focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic from March 2007 to March 2009. In order to have full and equal coverage of both the Arctic and the Antarctic, IPY 2007-8 covers two full annual cycles. The program involves over 200 projects, with thousands of…
Australia Day Flyover Imagery in Google Maps. As promised, Google has released the imagery it had taken during Australia Day at the end of January. There were some complications with the flight plan which prevented the plane from being where planned during the day. But, the pilot still flew along several beaches and some of the planned locations at later…
World Oil Consumption - 3D Charts in Google Earth. A member of the Google Earth Community, called 'giasen', has posted some really cool 3D charts showing World Oil Consumption in Google Earth. His charts show very nice looking exploding 3D graphs in the shape of each country with different colors. The data comes from the CIA World Factbook. Here are…
Coffeyville might seem like the middle of nowhere. But if you use Google Maps, the small town is the very center of the universe. Link: All Google's Roads Lead to Kansas By Rogers Cadenhead. [Wired News: Top Stories]
Where is the LLEN?. Mapping the CRLLEN A handy little tool called 'FRAPPR' and using the power of Google Earth, we have been able to map the location of members of the LLEN and users of our web site. The map opposite shows the distribution of around 40 members of the Central Ranges LLEN. We know we have over 120…