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December 27, 2011

Tracking the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race in Google Earth

The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht race, now in its 66th year, is underway off the coast of Australia. The 628 nautical mile race, in which racers travel from from Sydney Harbor to the historical port city of Hobart, is a very popular event in Australia. Event organizers have provided Google Earth tracking of the race for a few years now, and it's a great way to follow the race.

Along with the course line and locations of each boat, as seen above, you can click on any of the boat icons for more information; details on the boat, a photo, description, precise location, etc. It's quite a comprehensive file. The file is built as a network link, so it automatically updates itself with new information every 10 minutes.

To get the KML file for the race, simply visit this page on their site. Along with instructions, they also have a couple of KML files available to download. One is the main racing KML, the other is a CSIRO file that shows sea surface temperature and current directions, which is a great supplement to the main file. Head over there and follow the race right now!

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May 24, 2011

A collection of weather and storm tracking tools for Google Earth

A few years ago, Frank collected a variety of weather-related tools for Google Earth and put them into a nice package. Since then, a few of those tools have disappeared and a few new ones have been added, so I've rebuilt the collection with those changes made.

Two of the big contributors to the old file were GUIweather and WeatherBonk, and both sites are now completely gone. They both provided some excellent data, so it's quite a shame that they're gone. However, we've now added data from the World-Wide Lightning Location Network and NASA Goddard's TRMM Project.

If you already have a copy of the old network link, it should automatically refresh with the new information. Either way, you can download the KMZ file here.

If you have other valuable data that you think should be included, please leave a comment and include a link to their KML/KMZ data that we can include. Thanks!

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May 16, 2011

LiDAR views of the Carolina Bays

We've talked about the Carolina Bays before, but today we've got a great new way to view them. Michael at Cintos Research sent over some information about their new use of LiDAR DEM hsv-shaded imagery to expose as many of the Bays as they could -- over 22,000 so far!

If you want to just see one quickly, here's a KMZ file to download. To see the rest of them, you can pull individual KMZ files from this Google Fusion Table that they've put together.

To take it even further, their data includes placemarks for each of the 22,000 bays, with transparent png overlays to show the exact location of each Bay. Turning the overlays on and off help to reveal the bay in the standard Google Earth imagery.

For more about this project, check out the entry at IdeaScale.com.

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February 1, 2011

Satellites around the earth

A few years ago, Frank showed you a great visualization from AGI that shows the real-time positions for over 13,000 satellites around the Earth. That post, along with the page he built to show off the visualization using the Google Earth plug-in, have been some of our most popular pages ever, having been viewed nearly 200,000 times!

With that in mind, we thought we'd show you all of the great ways to view this data so that new users that may have missed it the first time around can see it as well. The Google Earth files below will automatically update every 30 seconds with the current positions of every satellite, so you can just sit back and watch.

There are three great ways to view these satellites:

1 - The official KML file
2 - Via the Google Earth Plug-in
3 - Watching the video below

As BoingBoing pointed out last year, these 13,000 satellites "represent an infinitesimal drop in the overall volume of their orbits", but it's still an amazing display. Thanks to AGI for providing such a great tool to view these satellites.

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September 13, 2010

A ton more data from the Pakistan flooding

Last month, we told you about Google's quest for more data to help with the massive flooding in Pakistan.

The "Unigeo initiative for Pakistan" has been developing a network link that has a ton of data related to the Pakistan flood.

The latest version (4.1) includes a slight "pre-loaded" transparency on the layers in order to keep the underlying information visible as well as a more ergonomic search panel.

Currently, the included layers are:

• Pakistan affected districts - 2010 Aug 16
• Flooding General overview - 2010 Aug 11
• Floods in Charsadda district - 2010 Aug 02
• Situation in Kheshgi area - 2010 Aug 04
• Charsadda and Nowshera districts - 2010 July
• Situation in Hyderabad - 2010 Aug 29
• Red Cross + Red Crescent Society - 2010 Aug 29

You can get the full KML file here, or check out their site for more information.

Another great resource to check out would be local.com.pk, which has quite a bit of excellent information regarding flood relief. For example, their Hunza Landslide page is very well done, and was featured in a recent TEDxLahore talk, which you can view here.

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