Thanks to Ogle Earth for news about a new Google Earth competitor; Skyline Globe from Skyline Software Systems.
The virtual globe is accessed through the TerraExplorer viewer. There are plenty of similarities with Google Earth, though if I were the company responsible, I would not have made a point of interest out of the old Wembley stadium as it rather dates the imagery! Screenshot below.
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Archive for the 'Photographs' Category
I’ve put together a really simple Google Earth file containing some placemarks for selected geographical features of the Jurassic coast, a geology map and links to Flickr photos. The file can be played as a tour if desired.
Update:
The file has been slightly improved with a couple more placemarks and photographs. I’m using it to introduce coastal landforms, the idea is that students identify the features labelled with placemarks using the picture clues.
Download Google Earth file of the Jurassic Coast
There is a new network link for Flickr that pulls in geotagged images available here.
This is quite exciting news! Live Local now features drawing tools so that you can now draw over maps and photos. A quick demo here - I’ve guessed the extent of a local flood risk area.
There’s more about this latest feature at the Virtual Earth blog.
Thanks to Google Earth blog!
Thanks to The Map Room for news of Flickrs’ latest development. Photos can now be tagged with their location directly within Flickr. Helpful videos and a fairly intuitive drag and drop interface make the process fairly simple. Unfortunately for UK users, the service is based on Yahoo maps, and they don’t cover the UK at the required scale for accurate geotagging. Here for example are photos that I’d previously geotagged. Pretty useless really.
In the meantime, Yuan.CC Maps or ITag probably represent the best free of charge alternatives for geotagging Flickr pictures in the UK.
Thanks to Tom Barrett I’ve been having another look at Quikmaps today.
Unfortunately they don’t work with Wordpress very well, so I created a page at Juicy Geography to display the results.
I’ve just completed a short illustrated article.
I’ve added a few Collections to my Live Local database.
This one on limestone landforms around Malham Cove features Geograph photographs in the information window for certain pushpins.
The Geograph site is an excellent source of Creative Commons images, and is now backed by the Ordnance Survey. A kml feed allows Geograph images to be viewed in Google Earth; one of several improvements to the site since it’s launch.
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