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As I plan my summer vacation, I’ve begun to wonder where my flights might put me as I fly to my destinations. Will I fly over the Grand Canyon? Yosemite? Nebraska? Assuming that my flights proceed in a more a less direct line, I could make a good guess using Google Earth.
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If you are a Google Earth user, you can view all kinds of fascinating free geo data available on the web. For example, this morning, I went exploring on the US Forest Service website and poked around the FSGeodata Clearinghouse. This collection offers interesting vector and raster-based mapping data for USFS lands in [...]

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Yesterday, I attended a public workshop here at the Googleplex entitled “Quick & Dirty KML Creation”. Pamela Fox and Mano Marks showed us “how to use tools within Google Maps and Google Earth to create, import, and edit KML.” This was part of the Google Geo Developer Conference series.
The presenters described using Google [...]

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There are three main ways you can import imagery into Google Earth:
Image overlay - (Add > Image Overlay) This is an image that is draped over the surface of the earth (though it can appear elevated as well). Among other things, this feature is useful for importing image files of maps. The picture [...]

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How do you create your KML? There are different KML authoring tools available.
Generally, I edit my KML in Adobe Dreamweaver, though a text editor like Notepad works fine. I create a network link in Google Earth to the KML file so I can view how my edits appear almost as soon I create [...]

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Last week, Google published a lot of new layer content for Google Earth. Read about this update on Google Earth Blog and Lat Long.
I am especially fond of the new National Geographic content for Asia, Europe and South America. For me, the National Geographic layer dovetails so perfectly with Google Earth, as NG [...]

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Yesterday, several of us presented at the California Council of Land Trust conference in Sacramento. Member groups of this organization work on land conservation issues, which is a cause near and dear to my heart.
Land trust organizations often use GIS to plan projects and educate donors and the public about their work. Non [...]

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See a point of interest in a layer that appeals to you? You can copy any placemark that appears in a layer and paste it into My Places (right click > Save to My Places). This is useful if you want to display this placemark, but not the entire layer.
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Google Earth Plus, Pro and EC allow you to track your movements in real time via GPS. For example, you can view a live GPS track of your drive in a car on a laptop as you travel. To do this, you’ll need a GPS device connected to your computer.
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Priceline, the veteran web1.0 travel site, has upgraded their application to take advantage of the Virtual Earth location platform. The most notable feature is the use of neighborhood polygons to help narrow your selection. Often when you’re planning a trip you know the part of town you want to stay in (midtown, [...]

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Here’s a Press release from New York City Transit about their new online trip planner that i came across via SlashGeo. If you’re in NYC you can use the app at http://tripplanner.mta.info/ The VE Gov blog has lots of detail on the application along with some nice screenshots. The 3D visualization features are [...]

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Last month I showed how easy it is to use your own 3D models in Web Applications using Live Maps Collections and the VE API. IDV Solutions has followed with a similar tutorial showing how they built this application that displays their office building on the 3D Web. You can view the source [...]

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The President of ESRI and Microsoft’s VP of Storage Systems talk about one of the longest running Microsoft Partnerships in this video. Much more on the partnership, GIS, and what ESRI is up to here. The Microsoft ISV (Indy Software Vendors) web has received a big makeover recently making it easy to find [...]

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Following on December’s announcement that the UK’s Multimap is now part of Microsoft, I’m really excited to share the news that the Virtual Earth team has grown once again. This time in the field of 3D modeling and animation. Caligari, makers of the amazing trueSpace, joined the Virtual Earth team here at Microsoft [...]

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