Glaciation Imagery in Google Earth

Google Earth Blog has a very useful post about some remarkable imagery showing glacial retreat...

Has link to this VIMEO VIDEO, which is one example of available material...

AK-03 Columbia Glacier from Cliff from Extreme Ice Survey on Vimeo.

Google Street View UK

GA HQ on Street View - Image copyright Google and associated imaging partners...

Today is the launch of the widely anticipated Google Street View. I had an invitation to attend, and would like to have been there, but had another appointment today pre-booked.

Just following the LIVE LAUNCH on Sky News, which is also going out on TWITTER. People on TWITTER noticed it last night before the official launch.

UK cities covered so far

England
- Birmingham
- Bristol
- Cambridge
- Coventry
- Derby
- Leeds
- Liverpool
- London
- Manchester
- Newcastle
- Norwich,
- Nottingham,
- Oxford
- Scunthorpe
- Sheffield
- Southampton
- York
Northern Ireland
- Belfast
Scotland
- Aberdeen
- Dundee
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow
Wales
- Cardiff
- Swansea

Red Nose Day

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Some great ready made resources for the classroom...

A TWITTER tip off via NavTeq
There are a whole series of resources to aid teachers looking at using Google Earth in the classroom. They have been made available by Carlton College.

This is the LANDING PAGE with the details on teaching with Google Earth.

One of the most impressive looking resources is one on the North West PASSAGE.

Undergraduate students use Google Earth and information from several web sites to investigate some of the consequences of climate change in polar regions, including the shrinking of the ice cap at the North Pole, disintegration of ice shelves, opening of shipping routes, effects on polar bears, and possible secondary effects on climate in other regions due to changes in ocean currents. 

A full list of activities HERE.

Nice work and many thanks for making these available !

Street View

This is coming to the UK later this year.
Here's the Australian intro video, which gives a flavour for what you will be able to do...


Wonder whether King's Lynn will be included ?

Historical Images of the GA

Many parts of the UK (and elsewhere) are now benefiting from new imagery on Google Earth.

Just checked the GA's location: S1 4BF...

The image now shows the new development which has us surrounded, but if you slide the HISTORICAL IMAGERY slider back to 1999, you'll see the open spaces on each side where the foxes use to roam in the evenings (according to John Lyon) and when we still had a view up the valley... Try it for your local area...