Archive for the 'Google Earth' Category
Integrating photos into 3D worlds
Or as some have put it “Viewfinder: tool for “Flickrizing” Google Earth”
(here) or “A 3-D Viewfinder for a Shoebox of Digital Photos” (here)
Well this is an absolute belter. I would suggest playing the video straight away and then reading the text.
A group of researchers and digital artists at the University of Southern California (USC) has […]
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University, YouTube, Google Earth and the wider community
Well I did it. I finally managed to embed a YouTube video within Google Earth for all to see. Google Earth is virtual globe , which sits on your desktop, and is created from superimposed images obtained from satellite imagery and aerial photography, (for more info click here and download it from here - its […]
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Google Maps and Earth
I’m still slogging away at creating a teaching guide for blogs. At the moment I’m collating all the information and references together. Hopefully by next week I will be starting to work on the final guide. Anyway something that is currently piquing my interest is the use of Google Earth and Google Maps for education […]
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Web 3D on the way?
Attaching 3D models to Google Earth has been achievable for a while. It’s interesting since to you can ‘fly’ though cities, explore spaces etc. Its adoption has been somewhat sporadic but recently the city of Berlin released around 44,000 3D building models (approx 10 percent of the city). The video below is essentially a recorded […]
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Twittervision and Flickrvision
So what do people make these then? Flickrvision and Twittervision.
As Mark Oehlert here “part of me feels like I’m watching the pulse of the Web…”.
Basically what we have here is an animated mashup of Google earth and blogging technology (Twittervision) and Flickr photos (Flickrvision).
Twittervision shows real-time geographic visualization of blog entries on a social network. […]
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Twittervision and Flickrvision
So what do people make these then? Flickrvision and Twittervision.
As Mark Oehlert here “part of me feels like I’m watching the pulse of the Web…”.
Basically what we have here is an animated mashup of Google earth and blogging technology (Twittervision) and Flickr photos (Flickrvision).
Twittervision shows real-time geographic visualization of blog entries on a social network. […]
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7 things you should know about Google Earth
From the Educause site.
Another great guide from Educause. This considers as to how you can use Google Earth in an educational context.
“He has a complete set of Lewis and Clark’s maps, in JPEG format. He carefully overlays their maps onto the images in Google Earth, adding placemarks for important milestones. Once he has the journey […]
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