Unique Sightseeing Roundup: Not So Green, Whale Spotting, Frank Lloyd Wright. Not So Green - The Not So Green web site highlights real life photos (from Flickr) taken out the window of mostly commercial flights, and then compares the photo to a screenshot of the same view inside Google Earth. The focus is mostly on Greenland, but they also have…
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Climate Change Data for Google Earth. Yesterday, Google and the UK government announced some visualizations for Google Earth which show data indicating global climate change. The UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown actually made the announcement during a Google conference held in the UK this week (see video of Brown's speech). The data comes from the UK's Met Office and from…
Yahoo Pipes - What It Means for Google Earth/Maps - See Earthify. Yesterday Yahoo released a new beta product called Yahoo Pipes. This tool has already been called "...a milestone in the history of the Internet" by visionary Tim O'Reilly. The full concept may be a little tricky to grasp if you are not a technologist, but in a nutshell…
2008 August 1st Total Eclipse in Google Earth. Just a week before the 2008 China Olympics, there will be a total solar eclipse occurring on the first of August which crosses China, Mongolia and central Russia. The best web resource I've found on eclipses (solar and lunar) is by Xavier Jubier. Here is his web page with all the details…