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February 21, 2011
Learn more about the US Presidents by using Google Earth
Today is "President's Day" in the United States, and Google has built a pretty neat site using the Google Earth Plug-in to show off information about all 44 presidents that we've had in the US.
You can view it for yourself in the U.S. Presidents Showcase
page, which uses the Google Earth Plug-in and various tours to show you around. If you'd rather just explore the information on your own, as seen above, you can use this KMZ file to see them in Google Earth.
In their President's Day blog entry, Google also points out a few other presidential items to explore in Google Earth, such as:
• A quick tour of the White House in 3D (KML)
• Valley Forge National Park (3D Warehouse)
Beyond those, here are a few other Presidential Google Earth Resources:
• The tour of all 50 State Capitol buildings, as many of the U.S. Presidents were state Governors at one time.
• Grave site locations for many of the Presidents (KMZ, via Google Earth Hacks)
If you know of other great resources to help educate on President's Day, please leave a comment below and let us know about them!
Posted by mickmel at February 21, 2011 8:12 AM
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Posted by: Becky at February 22, 2011 10:01 AM
The President KML is nice.
However, at the moment Millard Fillmore's birthplace on the pop-up is wrong
Posted by: visu at February 22, 2011 5:25 PM
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Great post! Appreciate all the links. I help write the My Wonderful World blog at National Geographic about geography education and I might provide a link back to this entry. Thanks for sharing this info!