Google Earth Update at Norfolk Geography Conference

Will be delivering a session at this conference, which will be held at the Professional Development Centre, Woodside Road, Norwich on the 30th of June.
I will be demonstrating some of the newer features in updates like 4.3

The session will be an update of one that I ran back in 2006 for Norfolk colleagues, when I ran through some of the features.


Here is a video from the Google Earth website which explains some of the new features:



The session is called: "Google Earth: Paths, Polygons and Pedagogy". It will cover a number of areas:

1. Paths (and fly along) / Tours
2. Polygons (zoning of areas)
3. Adding images to placemarks
4. GE Graph (basic introduction)
5. How to use some of these features as a GIS type resource

Will post more resources and materials nearer the time. Have a number of other projects to work on before then...

DFID, DEFRA and Met Office explore Climate Change Impacts around the world...

Thanks to Ewan Laurie for this tipoff via SLN.

It's a set of resources for Google Earth produced by DFID: the Department for International Development.

A series of files explores climate change impacts around the world:

People in developing countries are already being hit hard by changes in the weather. Visit Climate Change In Our World to find out how, from Ghana to Guatemala, poor people are trying to cope with disasters such as drought, floods and melting glaciers.

You can also read our stories from around the world here:

- Nepal: Watching the glaciers melt – first hand

- Nepal: Surviving mud and landslides

- Bangladesh: River island living

- Bangladesh: Life, land and property devastated by Cyclone Sidr

- Mozambique: Droughts, floods and higher temperatures bring more disease to city life

- Ghana: Destroyed by floods and droughts

- Guatemala: Drought, mud slides and later harvests add to hardships in remote highlands

- India: Trapped by drought and debt

- Malawi: Flood-hit children start taking action

- Sudan: Conflict and climate change

Download a KML file, and you can explore the earth with an overlay of expected climate change.

Explore and learn about the impacts of climate change and find out how you can make a difference with Climate Change in our World. The Met Office Hadley Centre, British Antarctic Survey and UK Government have harnessed Google Earth technology to present you with an interactive animation showing how climate change and global temperature rises could affect our world over the next 100 years.

Once you have opened this KML, click on the icons to find out more about how people around the world are already being affected by changing weather patterns and see the predicted effects of climate change across the globe between now and 2100.

New Job and Digital Explorer course...

It's official, so I can tell everyone now...
This was me at the Advanced Google Earth day put on by Jamie Buchanan Dunlop at the RGS-IBG yesterday. Thanks to Yvonne, my partner for the day ...

Any idea what's going on here ? Answer to come shortly...

Here's another clue....

...and one inspired by me...

Just to embarrass Chris...oh, and David too...

Off to the RGS

Anyone else going to Jamie Buchanan Dunlop's session on Tuesday of next week ?

This course is designed for people who have already attended the introduction course or are regular advanced users of Google Earth. It will cover how to integrate field data into Google Earth, creating geo-referenced graphs as well as choropleth maps that can be used in the classroom.

The weather looks like being nice for it...
I'll report back after the event.

Up to 100 000 people killed ?

By Flickr user TZA (Creative Commons) - image credit Google and associated imaging partners