June Floods - Yorkshire 2007

Well done to Melanie Richards for putting together a resource based around the current flooding which has devastated my home area of Rotherham and Sheffield.
At her GORGEOUS GEOGRAPHY blog, she has placed a file which shows images and also a layer of flooded area produced by the Environment Agency. This is a very useful and timely piece of work.
Also check out the GA's page of June 2007 resources: http://www.geography.org.uk/resources/june2007floods/

MetalToad

MetalToad have a very useful Flickr / Google Earth style thing...
Download the KML file, and it produces a feed of photos which have been Geotagged on Flickr, and shows them in their actual location.
Here's a nice example that was taken in Norwich...
Check it out !

Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening...

....but not with this Google Earth layer
Mentioned at GEARTHBLOG
It picked up some lightning in Norfolk yesterday evening. Could be good to use with students to track storms across towards the school, or warn of possible problems for the Sports Day javelin event, or the staff golf tournament...

The tool is produced by the GUIWEATHER site.

Updates and Norfolk in high res finally....

New update for June
Just updated to latest version of Google Earth (always good to have an up to date version)
Thanks to Noel Jenkins for reminding me of this update.

The big news though is that there is now high quality imagery of Norfolk on Google Earth, and it includes my home village and the place where I work.
There is one issue though: the age of the images that are used.

The ones of my village are at least 5 years old and possibly nearer 7.

The ones of my school are about the same age, as they show a number of missing details. In fact: one of the tasks I might do with my groups next week is to play a SPOT THE DIFFERENCE game for the local area.

Here is an image of my brother in law's house in Norwich for example - I think that's his car, so they are within the last 5 years or so:Here is one of my house - and some neighbours:And here is one of the school where I work...
There appears to be a missing TESCOS !

Another piece of news on GEARTHBLOG was about a recent Developers' Day where it was announced that Google has acquired PANORAMIO: the source of million plus images in Google Earth.