Here’s a quick mention of Thematic Mapping blog in which Bjørn Sandvik describes a number of data visualization techniques using Google Earth. Since I’m teaching about the Green Revolution tomorrow, I wanted to find a suitable animation to impress the class. A Google search led me to Bjorn’s blog and a kml file on the human population explosion that was perfect for my needs. The file can be found on this page, and is illustrated in the video:
Animation of SE Asia population growth in Google Earth from Noel Jenkins on Vimeo.
I’m sure that many other geographers will find the population animation (and many of the other resources at Thematic Mapping) very useful.
Another discovery on Thematic Mapping, was Matt Giger’s EarthBrowser site tracker. I love EarthBrowser and was interested in this embeddable version. I tried it out but found that it currently seems to prevent Safari from scrolling properly.
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