There’s a new version of the excellent virtual globe EarthBrowser.
With near real-time weather satellite images, sea surface temperature animations, hundreds of webcams (and the ability to customize the database) hurricane tracking and higher resolution maps than before, this remains a fantastically useful piece of software. It complements Google Earth and by virtue of it’s simplicity is perhaps the better classroom application for certain topics, particularly for teaching weather and climate. I wrote a short article about using Earth Browser in the classroom last year (link to article).
I’m really impressed with the scripts at Yuan.CCV Web Experiments, especially the GMiF application. It adds a small button to the Flickr toolbar entitled Gmap. clicking this displays any photos you’ve geo-tagged directly in Google Maps. You can also add geo-tags to a photograph using the same tool and it’s incredibly quick and user friendly.
Simply click the Gmap button and then select the desired location by pointing and clicking on the map. With one further click you can add a description and comment as well as geo-tags, and the script even pings Geobloggers for you, so the photos show up straight away on that site.
Now you could easily use the Geobloggers interface to create a file to display your pictures in Google Earth.
An absolutely superb tool for adding value to photographs in the geography classroom.
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