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November 9, 2009

Track Hurricane Ida in Google Earth

Hurricane Ida is on a path for the central Gulf Coast, expected to make landfall tonight somewhere between New Orleans and Pensacola. While the storm is expected to weaken before it hits land, it will still arrive as a strong tropical storm and could cause quite a lot of damage.

Hurricane Ida in Google Earth

As you know, Google Earth has some excellent tools for tracking storms like this. You can overlay weather satellite photos, radar, storm tracks, real-time lightning strikes, pressure maps, wind maps, sea surface temperatures, and more. We've written about many of the tools available in the past. Here is a set of weather tools in a single network link that lets you get access to great weather data in one convenient package. Check out the many datasets starting with two different storm tracking tools. You can also read more details about the collection.

To help you understand what's possible with these weather tools, here is a video demonstration that Frank created a few years ago:

There's also an excellent new tool available for Google Earth which lets you follow the hurricane hunters as they fly into the storms and collect data. Check out the story about live hurricane hunter mission data.

Posted by mickmel at 9:55 AM | Comments (0)

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November 3, 2009

Links: Seero for sale, i-gotU GPS logger review, Best of Building Maker expands

Seero For Sale: We've talked about Seero a few times in the past. They offer live video with GPS and did some cool stuff with Where 2.0 2008. Recently, the Seero team decided to sell the site (eBay auction) and all assets so they can focus on other projects. The site would be a serious investment, with a starting bid close to $50K. A good example of Seero's capability can be seen in this Steve McQueen video.

i-gotU GPS: The folks at @trip have a nifty new GPS device to help you put your activity into Google Earth. I've been playing with it for a few days and I tend to agree with them -- it's a great little device. It's tiny, waterproof and can be used for 80 hours non-stop; quite impressive!

The only big problem I had with it is that it's not very compatible with Windows 7. My primary desktop and my primary laptop are Windows 7, and my netbook doesn't have a CD drive. That meant I had to dig out my old XP laptop and fire it up. To their credit, it worked reasonably well on there. However, they need to solve the insane Windows 7 directions as quickly as possible. As neat as the device is, having to boot Windows in a special manner each time just to use the device is a bit too much. Also, there is no Mac version of the software available; they simply recommend Windows 2000, XP or Vista.

If you have a computer that can handle it, the cost isn't too bad (under $100 for both models) and would probably be excellent if you do a lot of travel and/or hiking. I'll keep an eye on it and let you know when they finally release decent software for Windows 7 and/or Mac. In the meantime, I'd hold off on this purchase unless you have an older Windows machine with no intention of upgrading to Win 7. Here's a short sample video from their site to show what a track looks like:

Best of Building Maker: We've mentioned this collection before, but felt it was worth showing off again. With all of the Building Maker models that are arriving in Google Earth, the Best of Building Maker collection is a great way to see some of the best. None of my models have made it in there -- have yours?

Best of Building Maker

Posted by mickmel at 9:16 AM | Comments (6)

September 22, 2009

Fresh Update to the Ocean Expeditions layer

Google has just updated the Ocean Expeditions layer in Google Earth, and they've added some great content about expeditions around the world. To access this layer, simply check the Ocean Expeditions icon inside of the Ocean folder or you can open this kml file .

Ocean Expeditions Layer in Google Earth

Once opened, a variety of ship icons will appear in the ocean. Ships with a yellow shaded background represent live or recent expeditions (such as the National Geographic expedition to Cocos Island), while ships with a blue shaded background represent expeditions older than six months (such as various expeditions by the Cousteau Society). As you zoom in, more details will appear. Also, if you select a placemark for a particular expedition, it will load tracks and other placemarks for more details on that expedition.

Hopefully you'll find the Tahina Expedition in this layer in the not too distant future. :-)

Posted by FrankTaylor at 2:11 PM | Comments (1)

August 7, 2009

Cat 4 Storm Felicia Headed for Hawaii - See in Google Earth

Google Earth is a great tool for checking on weather - tropical storms in particular. Right now a category 4 storm is in the Pacific Ocean making a bee-line for Hawaii. The good news is that current forecasts have it losing strength before it reaches the islands. But, you can view the storm's track, forecasted path, satellite photos, and much more using the Storm Tracking Tools for Google Earth collected by Google Earth Blog. These tools are collection of great weather resources from a variety of organizations and individuals using data from NOAA, the US Navy, and many other weather providers.

In the screenshot below, you're seeing storm forecast and tracking data from iMapWeather.com and NOAA satellite imagery from just a few minutes ago showing category 4 storm Felicia:

Hurricane Felicia on August 7, 2009 in Google Earth

Read the GEB storm tracking post for more details on how to use Google Earth to perform storm tracking.

Posted by FrankTaylor at 10:36 AM | Comments (0)

July 25, 2009

Google Marries Panoramio Lookaround to Street View

Google has announced an update to Street View that further marries Panoramio features into the Street View experience. In June of last year, Google added a feature in Panoramio called "Look Around" - it includes an interface that lets you see outlines, in perspective of the angle they were taken, of other photos available of the same scene. In March of this year, Google added Panoramio user photos into the Street View interface. Now the look around feature has also been married into Street View. Here's a video showing what it looks like:

Here is a link to view Street View with the new interface for Big Ben - which Google refers to as "Photo Zoom". Note: if you click on the link of the title of each photo (in the upper left of Street View's interface), you can fly to that photo in Panoramio. Find the link to "Look Around" below the photo and you can use the Panoramio interface (which may make it easier to find even more photos).

Earlier this year, I discovered you can include the Panoramio Look Around interface into a Google Earth placemark. It works pretty well. But, the interface needs some tweaking to work properly within a placemark. (I suggested that to Panoramio, but it hasn't been changed yet.) It should be possible to make a network link to view Look Arounds for any popular location inside Google Earth. Unfortunately, you can't embed the Street View "photo zoom" interface at all apparently. Otherwise I would try putting that in a placemark.

Posted by FrankTaylor at 7:57 AM | Comments (4)

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  2. View Details on July 22 Total Solar Eclipse in Google Earth - July 13, 2009
  3. NASA Doing Robotic Recon with Google Earth - June 30, 2009
  4. Tour de France 2009 in Google Earth - June 29, 2009
  5. Huge Waste of Energy Visible in Google Earth - June 2, 2009
  6. Links: North Korea, Network Links, National Geographic - June 1, 2009
  7. 3D Flight Tracking in Netherlands with Google Earth - May 28, 2009
  8. Astronomers Use Google Sky to Raise Research Funds - January 12, 2009
  9. Links: Santa Tracker Popular, Volvo Ocean Race, Lost World Discovered, Cold War KML - December 26, 2008
  10. Upgrade to EveryTrail GPS Trails Layer in Google Earth - December 17, 2008
  11. Top 10 Games With Google Earth - September 24, 2008
  12. Update on Using GPS for Tracking in Google Earth - September 19, 2008
  13. Google News Layer for Google Earth Next Week - May 15, 2008
  14. Where 2.0 - Day 1 - May 13, 2008
  15. NASA Time Animation of Ionosphere For Google Earth - May 5, 2008
  16. Space Debris Viewed in Google Earth - April 23, 2008
  17. Links: GE Lesson, GETools, Microsoft KML, 3D Bridges, Royal Australian 3D, EPA Award - April 18, 2008
  18. Links: SR22 Cockpit, Jane Austen, Magnetic Pole, Taiwan GE Bonanza, Tutorial, VE3D on Mac - March 17, 2008
  19. Iditarod 2008 Dog Sled Race Live in Google Earth - March 10, 2008
  20. Super UK Photo Project geograph Turns Three - March 6, 2008
  21. Live Orbit Tracker in Google Earth - March 3, 2008
  22. UK Earthquake - View Data in Google Earth - February 27, 2008
  23. Links: Star Viewer, Green Screen, World Hockey, European Pollution, Golden Shadow - January 29, 2008
  24. New Layer Goodness for Google Earth - January 2008 - January 25, 2008
  25. Links: KML Wrap-up, New Orrery, Zip Scribble, South China Sea - January 23, 2008
  26. Top 10 New Google Earth Features 2007 - December 31, 2007
  27. Top 25 Stories of Google Earth 2007 - December 27, 2007
  28. Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2007 - December 26, 2007
  29. Links: Daily Earth Imagery, Antarctica Photos, Panoramio Searchable, Santa Sleigh - December 18, 2007
  30. AGU Fall Meeting - Day 1 Highlights - December 13, 2007
  31. Earthquake Activity Time Animation - December 12, 2007
  32. Links: Maps Terrain in GE, GPS Trip Planning, Geo Lessons, and more - December 11, 2007
  33. Tropical Cyclone Sidr in Google Earth - November 16, 2007
  34. San Francisco Oil Spill in Google Earth - November 12, 2007
  35. Big Layer Update - Weather Layers in Google Earth - November 8, 2007
  36. Caribbean 1500 Sailing Cup in Google Earth - November 5, 2007
  37. X PRIZE Cup Photos Mapped - November 1, 2007
  38. Trip Status, Links: PhotoOverlay tool, CIA World Factbook, Another BMNG - October 29, 2007
  39. Links: Chinese Cop Catches Crook, Malibu Fire, EveryTrail Update, CIA WorldFactbook, Hungary Weather - October 22, 2007
  40. Improved KML Support for Google Maps - October 17, 2007
  41. 2007 Wirefly X PRIZE Cup - October 8, 2007
  42. Links: Ohio Class Sub, Galactic Delight, Constellation Drawings - October 5, 2007
  43. News Roundup: Poles Overlays, Rocket Garden, Army Topos, Astronomy, Roads - September 20, 2007
  44. Sky News Roundup: New Horizon, SpaceNavigator, Google plans for Sky - September 12, 2007
  45. FlashEarth Mashup with Google Earth 4.2 - August 28, 2007
  46. News Roundup: Peru Earthquake, Virtual Earth Update, Stefan's Alps Hike - August 16, 2007
  47. Best Storm Tracking and Weather Tools for Google Earth - August 15, 2007
  48. Scientific Ocean Drilling Database in Google Earth - August 14, 2007
  49. R/C Planes and Camera Fun with Google Earth - August 12, 2007
  50. Improved International Polar Year Content for Google Earth - July 30, 2007
  51. Population Data for Mexico - July 27, 2007
  52. Energy Production Information for Western US - July 17, 2007
  53. Google Finds Matt in Google Earth - July 11, 2007
  54. 3D Dresden in Google Earth - July 9, 2007
  55. Quasi-global Near real-time Rainfall in Google Earth - July 3, 2007
  56. News RoundUp: Football Game, VesselTracker, Antarctic Bases, Egyptian Digs, 3D Cities Help, Chimps, Gallery - June 12, 2007
  57. ISDE Day 3 Summary - June 8, 2007
  58. News Roundup - France Censors, Flickr, Seabeds, Live tracking - June 4, 2007
  59. Weather and Storm Tracking Tools for Google Earth - June 2, 2007
  60. PhotoFlyr - A Google Earth 3D Flying Photo Viewer - May 23, 2007
  61. Watch Weekend Boating Live in Google Earth - May 18, 2007
  62. FlickrVision - And Now for Google Earth - May 15, 2007
  63. 3D Warehouse Map Mashup for Collections - May 4, 2007
  64. Yahoo! Pipes Supports KML - May 3, 2007
  65. Globe Glider Video Demonstration - May 2, 2007
  66. Super Mapping Mashup -> Globe Glider Next Generation - May 1, 2007
  67. Dynamic Map Showing AIM Chatters in Google Earth - April 30, 2007
  68. News Roundup: Tour de France, Tasmania Logging, Somalia, GE-Sharing, More Biking - April 23, 2007
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  70. Continuous Flow of New 3D Buildings - April 17, 2007
  71. Google Earth Classified Ads by Safarri - March 26, 2007
  72. News Roundup - Fixes for Windows Vista, Airshows, FBOWeb update, Photos with Search - March 19, 2007
  73. Dig a Hole Through Google Earth - March 16, 2007
  74. gCensus - US Census Data for Google Earth - March 14, 2007
  75. Skype + Unype = Multi-User Google Earth - March 10, 2007
  76. Topographical Maps and Other Goodies for Google Earth - March 6, 2007
  77. News Roundup: KML Standardization, Cruise ship tracker, IGiGLE, 3D Printing - March 3, 2007
  78. New Real-time Traffic in Google Maps for USA - February 28, 2007
  79. Planes in Flight Hobby - February 13, 2007
  80. Using Satellite Photos to Document Human Rights Violations - February 7, 2007
  81. Google Street Maps Overlay for Google Earth - February 2, 2007
  82. High Res Photos from an Aerial Drone in Google Earth - January 26, 2007
  83. Track Cruise Ships in 3D in Google Earth - January 22, 2007
  84. Daily NASA MODIS Satellite Imagery for Google Earth - January 20, 2007
  85. NOAA Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) Weather Feed for Google Earth - January 13, 2007
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  92. Multilingual Wikipedia Project Linking to Google Earth - December 28, 2006
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  94. Amazing Implementation of Marine Charts for Google Earth - December 21, 2006
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  127. Tour de France Live Tracking Enhancements - July 12, 2006
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  129. FSEarth 3.0 - MS Flight Simulator and Google Earth - July 8, 2006
  130. Magnalox Provides Live Tracking Interface for Google Earth - July 7, 2006
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  133. Live Tracking of Tour de France in Google Earth - July 2, 2006
  134. Tour de France 2006 Starts Tomorrow - June 30, 2006
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  138. Avian Flu Outbreak Map Update - Human Cases in Indonesia - June 1, 2006
  139. Near Real-time Severe Weather Data for the US from NOAA - May 31, 2006
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  141. Tour de France 2006 in Google Earth - May 25, 2006
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  145. Volvo Ocean Race Leg 7 in Google Earth - May 18, 2006
  146. Mount Merapi Volcano in Google Earth - May 15, 2006
  147. Real-time Stream Flow Sensor Net in Google Earth - May 14, 2006
  148. Win a Mazda CX-7 in a Sweepstakes Contest in Google Earth - May 1, 2006
  149. Near Real-time Ocean/Weather Data - April 28, 2006
  150. Seattle 911 Live in Google Earth - April 18, 2006
  151. NOAA's Coral Reef Watch Adds Google Earth Data - April 13, 2006
  152. Wikipedia for Google Earth and WikiSearch Tool - April 11, 2006
  153. Follow Volvo Ocean Race Leg 5 - April 3, 2006
  154. Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race in Google Earth - March 29, 2006
  155. Enhanced Avian Flu Outbreak Tracker - March 27, 2006
  156. Real-Time Sensor Net in Google Earth - March 23, 2006
  157. GlobalFlyer Attempting Third World Record - March 15, 2006
  158. Bed and Breakfast Locations in Google Earth - March 6, 2006
  159. GolfNation.org - Courses in Google Earth - March 3, 2006
  160. Emotion Map in Google Earth - February 21, 2006
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  162. Pilot World-wide Weather in Google Earth - February 8, 2006
  163. Earthquake Monitoring - February 7, 2006
  164. Real-time Shuttle Bus Tracking in Google Earth - February 1, 2006
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  166. Real Estate for Google Earth by Re/Max - Again! - January 14, 2006
  167. Aurora Viewing Map in Google Earth - January 5, 2006
  168. Globe Glider - Integrated Maps within Google Earth - January 3, 2006
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  173. Meteor Craters on Earth - October 18, 2005
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  175. UK Autumn Leaves Changing Colour - September 30, 2005
  176. Owners of Geocaching.com Stifle Innovation - September 24, 2005
  177. Placeopedia Links Google Earth to WikiPedia - September 21, 2005
  178. Storm Tracking Tools - Hurricanes Rita/Phillipe - September 20, 2005
  179. Dynamic Clock - Big Ben - September 16, 2005
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  183. Real Estate Done Google Earth Style - August 29, 2005
  184. Hurricanes/Tropical Data - August 26, 2005
  185. City of Portland GIS - August 25, 2005
  186. Geosnapper.com Photos - August 19, 2005
  187. Geotagged Flickr photos on the fly... - August 3, 2005
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