The MERKADOR blog which I think is based in Belgium has shared some great work for geography of sport units.
There are 2 Google Earth related projects...
The first refers to the English Premiership.
This content overlay shows the origin of the first team players of the 4 biggest clubs: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United.
You can see the geographical composition of the teams in 3 ways:
- click on the team emblems to see a pie chart of the players nationalities
- check out the lines connecting the team emblems to the players countries of origin. Broader lines mean more players come from that particular country. Enable and disable the clubs you want to visualize in the table of content
- click on the flag icons of the countries to see what players originate from a particular country
The second one is more ambitious and targets all the clubs that were involved in the World Cup 2010
Every country is represented by the country border outline and an icon with the country flag. Clicking the country icon will open a balloon with the squad list of the country. For every player a link is provided to take you to the stadium of the club the player is affiliated with. Lines connecting the country to the clubs of the members of the countries national team are also provided.
The data comes from the GLOBAL FOOTBALL DATABASE which is a useful site for those teaching about global sport.
Also check out the one for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHY
There's also - rather nicely timed this find - of HIV / AIDS PREVALENCE rates.
There's also a GOOGLE EARTH FEATURES QUIZ so that you can get to know Google Earth....
This is all excellent work !!
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