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Google Earth Talk

by Robert Anderson last modified 2006-11-13 02:42

Google Earth is a free GIS package with a lot of power. It can display maps, mark locations, import GPS tracks and points of interest. Did I mention cool flythroughs?

Google Earth (GE) is available for free download from "http://earth.google.com/".

What are Graphical Information Systems (GIS)

http://umassk12.net/earth/presentations/Qian.ppt

How is Google Earth being used

A geography teacher in Scotland (http://OllieBray.com) gave a conference presentation "Movie 50 ideas in 50 minutes" which is available online from: "http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2717838093983614120&hl=en-GB". He's using it to get students involved in geography. His talk is on 50 ideas to change how teachers teach geography in gradeschools.

A free GIS system.

A really cool toy.

Links in really nicely with http://maps.google.com, just add a '/maps?q=' followed by a URL to your .kml file. For example: "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.sr.unh.edu/~rea/adv060817/gaps.gdb.kml". Note this example was done with gpsbabel (http://www.gpsbabel.org/).

Goes great with

The gps reformating swiss army knife "gpsbabel" (http://www.gpsbabel.org/).

Your own GPS track logs.


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