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February 07, 2008
YouTube Layer in Google Earth Updating Daily
Back in June, Google added the ability to map the location of a video to YouTube. A month later, Google added the ability to show video clips within Google Earth placemarks. Then in October, Google released a YouTube layer in Google Earth to show placemarks of mapped YouTube videos. You find this layer under the layer pane inside the Gallery layer folder (its alphabetical, so YouTube is at the bottom). This layer has been growing in size since October, and for the past few weeks it apparently has been updating on a daily basis. I confirmed that the video I did on the dinosaur Street View shot was in the YouTube layer yesterday. So, if you map your YouTube video when you upload it, check back a day or so later to see it in the Google Earth layer.
By the way, since the YouTube layer represents videos mapped by people all over the world, I think it should be part of the Geographic Web layer which also has geotagged photos from Panoramio, geotagged articles from Wikipedia, and the best of placemarks from the Google Earth Community.
Posted by FrankTaylor at February 7, 2008 08:35 AM
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Posted by: Josh at February 7, 2008 07:17 PM
hi Frank - I recently blogged about the poor quality of georeferencing for a lot of the YouTube videos. My theory is that there's a general lack of understanding of scale when adding features to maps. These are very useful features (I work in nature conservation) but need to be looked at critically in order to improve their quality in the future.
Posted by: Matt Merrifield at February 9, 2008 09:25 PM
Matt, this is an excellent point. I think Google's interface for the getagging of videos is partly to blame. They need to encourage people to zoom in closer and position their video geotag more accurately.
Posted by: Frank Taylor at February 10, 2008 08:22 AM
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I want to know when the breaking point for YouTube videos is going to be. You go to the White House, for example, and there are already hundreds of videos. I don't know the answer, but is there a point where it will be too cluttered? And then what? I love the idea and use it with students, but it's a question that has come up.