Google Earth Coolness

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Here are few new articles I just found in my daily search for new cool stuff.  A lot of people are enjoying Google Earth for a variety of reasons, and rightly so.  Wait until they get their hands on Earth from Orbit!  Anyway, without further ado, here are the articles I found today…

1. This isn’t a new article, but I like it for its passionate viewpoint about Google Earth.  The writer, Brandon, had just discovered Google Earth at this time and was pretty smitten with it, explaining all the places he’d looked up in the few hours after downloading it.  Some really nice photos on here, as well.  Pretty much all the questions he had at the time of the writing have all been answered or solved by Google Earth at this point.  Read the entire article here.

2. This was the first article I found about Honda adding Google Earth to its navigation service in Japan.  On further research I found that this has already been implemented.  And not only that, you can have a split screen where the driver watches the Google Earth GPS and the passengers watch a movie.  How cool is that??  Anyway, here’s the original article I found about the plans for Honda’s use of Google Earth technology.  Read original article here.

3. Google Earth has a new program called Google Earth Outreach.  It was created in partnership with the United Nations and, as you can imagine, the possibilities for help with this particular partnership are limitless.

One of the great things about Google Earth is that it gives activists an amazing tool for tracking in real time and locating important events on the map for others to see and track and follow.  This makes it much more possible to reach more people with whatever humanitarian message an organization is trying to disseminate.  Read the original article about the Google Earth/UN partnership here.

4. Ahhhhh Global Climate Change!!!!!  As awareness and discussion of this subject increases on an individual basis, corporations who care feel compelled to do what they can as well.  Sometimes so they don’t look like they don’t care, and sometimes because they actually do.  Personally I don’t really care what their motivation is, as long as they’re doing something helpful to our environment and our planet.

Google Earth has been working with Britain’s environment industry and Meteorological Office to create a new layer for Google Earth which shows the predicted alterations to our earth based on global climate change over the next 100 years.  Check it out for yourself here.

5. Ok this is really the most amazing of all the articles I found in my search today.  If you’re a flickr user and you want to be able to fly to the places in Google Earth where your photos are geotagged, well now you can with FlickrFly.  And allll the specifics on how to do this are right here. It’s a bit technical, but worded in a way really anyone can understand.  Have at it!

Now with all these things that Google Earth can do, the reason I’m so excited about Earth from Orbit, is that it can do everything Google Earth can do but more…with other more technical layers that don’t exist in Google Earth, higher-res imagery, and imagery of other planets and the moon.  Plus it’s completely open source, so developers can come up with even more ways to use Earth from Orbit, plugins and extensions like Firefox users have.  So the potential for applications is really and truly infinite.  I’m very excited about it, and I look forward to the world’s contributions to making Earth from Orbit the coolest, most awesome and most helpful tool the Earth has ever seen.

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