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January 13, 2006
CIA World FactBook in Google Earth
A few months ago I wrote a story on a collection of placemarks which provided all sorts of details on countries, their flag, and links to other sources of information on the countries. This collection 
does something quite similar except it uses the flags as the placemarks, and uses the CIA World Factbook as the basis of its information. The CIA World Factbook is a nice collection of public information on countries of the world made available by the US government on the Internet for many years now. When you click on the country flags, you will see an excerpt of the background information (usually a historical/political perspective) from the Factbook, a link to the complete information, and links to both Google and Wikipedia information on that country. I recommend you click on "Borders" on the left, in the navigation window of GE, to show country outlines.
This collection was put together by the GEC community member known as 'Herrminator' who also published the excellent collection of World Heritage Locations written about earlier. Nice work Herrminator!
Posted by FrankTaylor at January 13, 2006 8:29 AM
Comments
Posted by: kingsley at August 20, 2006 3:52 PM
In my openion, the CIA World Factbook is a valuable resource. I have found it to be highly accurate and well organized.
Can an entry be added for the traditional Middle East and ASEAN?
Also, can a field for food production and consumption be added to the factook?
Posted by: Raj Chanani at October 18, 2006 5:23 PM
What's the secret?
To be honest with you nothing. I mean do you want that kind of a Knowledge Transfer?
You will be compelled to stuff that you would otherwise not do. You relationship with many people in your space will change.
Posted by: Raj Chanani at July 2, 2007 11:30 AM
To boldly go where no man has gone before...
Outer Space to the Heavens.
Posted by: Raj at September 6, 2007 8:00 PM
Fantastic! I'm planning to make Japanese translated version for students....
Posted by: Tsunefumi Watanabe at October 22, 2007 5:22 AM
Thank you! And thanks to the author! Good job! He could just maybe skipped the name of the country along with the flag since that's available from the beginning if the "borders and labels" layer is on. I've been missing the flag layer in Google Earth. The only virtual globe that I know has flag layer by default is NASA World Wind. So I've been using the both of them at the same time if I wanted to look up the flag of a specific country. So I've been really missing this one. Google should do the same as NASA and implement the flag layer as standard option in Google Earth. Once again, thank you!
Posted by: Samir at June 16, 2008 7:15 PM
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excellent information. keep it up.