Google Earth

Visualizing spatio-temporal war casualty data in Google Earth: Where 2.0 ...

By Sean Askay

Google Earth serves as a powerful platform for visualizing dense spatio-temporal datasets, as demonstrated by published and forthcoming KML projects presented during this talk. In particular, Map the Fallen (published on Memorial Day 2009) is a visualization of the 5500+ US and international soldiers that have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.

[Publish Date: March 30, 2010]

More Geo-Games: Ship Simulator on Google Earth - O'Reilly Radar

By Brady Forrest

At Google I/O 2008 the Google Earth API was released. It brought Google Earth's 3D capabilities to the web (with the help of browser extensions). Since that release they've started supporting Macs. One really nice part of the Google Earth API is the ability to create games in the 3D world. One of the sample apps was the game...

[Publish Date: May 18, 2009]

Speaker: Sean Askay: Where 2.0 Conference 2010 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

Sean Askay is a Developer Support Engineer on the *Google Earth Outreach* (link: https://earth.google.com/outreach/) team, which aims to help non-profit organizations use mapping technology to further their missions.

[Publish Date: March 30, 2010]

Touring With Google Earth 5 - O'Reilly Broadcast

By Kurt Cagle

Google Earth 5 hit the Internet earlier this week (visions of some cataclysmic asteroid impact come to mind with that statement), debuting everything from a historical mode that lets you see the evolution of terrain over time to a dramatically expanded oceanographic mode that lets you see a whole new world 'under da sea' to the rather stunning release of Google Mars, in which the orbiter maps from the exploratory missions of the last decade are now laid out in stunning detail (and hopelly waking up a whole new level of appreciation for the Red Planet).

[Publish Date: February 06, 2009]

Extending Google Earth: Where 2.0 Conference 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

By Frank Taylor

Google Earth provides a visualization platform for sharing geospatial information that is both deep with data and imagery, but also rich in terms of functionality. This session will demonstrate cutting edge applications, discuss the availability of developer resources, and will even describe tools available to use the platform without coding.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Geo-Blogging with the Google Earth API - InsideRIA

By Andrew Trice

The concept Geo-tagging data is not new. With GPS and cellular-network based geolocation available nearly everywhere, geographic information is showing up everywhere that it is applicable; cell phones, web sites, rss feeds, etc... It is the backbone of the "geoweb". There are numerous programs for geo-tagging your data, and you can even geotag your pictures from your iPhone, if you so choose. With the Google Earth API, you can take this information and publish it on an interactive globe for the entire web to see.

[Publish Date: January 08, 2009]

Is 3D Really Worth It?: Where 2.0 Conference 2010 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

By Mok Oh

We discuss the past, present and the future of 3D technologies -- e.g. Photosynth, Google Earth, panoramic imagery, photogrammetry -- specifically for the Where 2.0 audience. In this context, we ask the question: Is 3D really worth the pain? The goal of this talk is to provide an analysis of where 3D was, is, and will be headed specifically for the Where 2.0 audience.

[Publish Date: March 30, 2010]

Speaker: Schuyler Erle: Where 2.0 Conference 2010 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

Schuyler Erle is a free software developer and activist. He is responsible for NoCatAuth, an early open source wireless captive portal, and geocoder.us, an open source U.S. address geocoder. Erle wrote O'Reilly's Mapping Hacks with Jo Walsh and Rich Gibson, and Google Map Hacks, also with Rich. Presently, he works with MetaCarta in Cambridge, MA, USA, developing nitfy geographic projects like OpenLayers, an open source web mapping framework written in pure JavaScript, and Gutenkarte, a service for exploring the geographic dimension of classic works of literature. Erle is proud to be a founding member of the OSGeo Foundation.

[Publish Date: March 30, 2010]

Hacking with Google, Virtual Earth and Yahoo's Maps API I: Where 2.0 ...

By Andrew Turner, Evan 'Rabble' Henshaw-Plath

You can add maps to your site in minutes with Microsoft, Google's, Mapquest, or Yahoo's APIs. However, there's more to geo than just maps or the big guy's APIs. Learn how and when to use geocoding, reverse-geocoding, place names and other services that you've never hear of before.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Google Wave: the Early Days - O'Reilly Radar

By Tim O'Reilly

After the press conference following this morning's keynotes, I was part of a small group conversation with Lars Rasmussen, head of the Google Wave team. He told the story of how they pitched Sergey Brin on the Wave project.

[Publish Date: May 28, 2009]

Decoding Climate Change with Perl, gnuplot and Google Earth - O'Reilly Radar

By John Graham-Cumming

Back in August The New York Times reported that the word 'statistics' had replaced the word 'plastics' in the famous career guidance given in the film The Graduate. And more recently the same paper reported that data and its analysis are the future of science. And it's not just in business and ivory towers that statistical analysis of masses of data is becoming important: just understanding the wealth of percentages, risk factors and charts that confront us all requires a form of 'data literacy'.

[Publish Date: December 28, 2009]

Google Maps - Now With Perspective! - InsideRIA

By Andrew Trice

No, this isn't my new perspective on using the Google Maps API. In fact, it's much more exciting. Google recently released a new addition to the Maps API for Flash, including 3D perspective, and a new control set that is reminiscent of the controls in Google Earth! Straight from Google: "With a perspective map, the map is projected on a viewport (the screen) using a virtual point of reference in front of the screen (the camera). These three components (the map, the viewport and the camera) form a perspective on the viewport which gives the illusion of depth perception to the map."

[Publish Date: July 30, 2009]