A project originally funded by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) with an Innovative Geography Teaching Grant to develop teaching ideas for using Google Earth in the Geography classroom, expanded to include ArcGIS Online in 2014
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Christmas 3D Trees on Google Earth
There are 3D Christmas trees at places like Trafalgar Square, and the Rockefeller Centre in New York
How many can you find ?
FrozenUK
Follow @FrozenUK for the cold weather geographical digest... or add #FrozenUK to your tweets and I'll pick it up and add it when I get the chance...
There is more snow falling as I type this...
Sunday, December 19, 2010
The Cartographer
This looks very cool - thanks to Kenny for the tipoff...
UPDATE: Now works with Google Earth too :)
See comment below....
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Ollie Bray and Paul Cornish
First, OLLIE BRAY has produced a series of 4 posts on Google Earth 6 summarising the new features.
Paul Cornish has produced an excellent resource and framework for studying Crime with Google Earth
Sunday, December 05, 2010
Google Earth 6
It includes millions of 3D trees, and other improvements, including better integration with Google Street View
Go to the AMAZON for example, and you can wander the jungle and explore some of the tree species in the rainforest... I'm sure we can come up with some ideas for using this in the geography classroom :)
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Google Earth Weather Forecasting
Friday, July 16, 2010
Google Earth 4 Degrees
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Geography Matters
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Plastiki in 3D
I've been following the Plastiki voyage's story for over a year now...
Saturday, May 01, 2010
Google Earth and Mike Oldfield
Monday, April 19, 2010
Ash, Ash baby....
- Polygons for ash cloud coverage
- Overlays
- Bookmarks of stories of stranded people (on Twitter) - use a Twitter search
Thursday, April 01, 2010
ESRI (UK) & GA Strategic Partnership
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Google Street View goes nationwide
Just done that myself, and you can see the house where I lived between 1977 and 1988 (ish) above, tho' it didn't look like that at the time...
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Storybook Earth
Here's one that got away...
Almost 2 years ago, Tom Barrett and I discussed an idea for a Google Earth grant. They were offering cash to start up projects using Google Earth in innovative ways...
We came up with an idea called STORYBOOK EARTH, which would gather and geolocate children's stories.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Life Trips and Thinkingeography
LifeTrips with GoogleEarth is a new website attached to a Wikispace which allows you to look at the lives of people in different cities. Using Google Earth it tracks the day paths of people who live throughout the world and helps people connect with people in their own city, or in a city across the world.
The site can be visited by anyone, though school pupils, in association with their teachers may contribute to the site by registering, and then publishing material to the connected Wikispace pages.
This website provides an index for the Wikispace in which the site’s assets reside.
LifeTrips with GoogleEarth is an invitation to communicate.