Historical Shoreline Surveys

Coastal erosion is a theme which many teachers use Google Earth to explore, thanks perhaps to work by Bob Lang looking at the Holderness coast.
For more on that, you can check out the book 'GIS made Easy' that I edited. It contains all the details of an activity using Google Earth to measure coastal erosion and plan for the consequences in the future.

Now, NOAA has released thousands of old coastal surveys of the USA, which can be viewed overlain on Google Earth, and the historical time slider allows changes in the coastline to be viewed.

Google GeoTeachers Institute

I had a chat with Ed Parsons a year ago in Reading about doing something else for geography teachers with the tools that Google produce than their existing support.
I haven't heard anything else since, but just picked up on this opportunity for geography teachers.


Make sure that you apply using the online application form HERE

Events are taking place in Dublin and London in June.

Street View on the Swiss Railways...

As part of a new Google project you can now experience what it is like to ride on the scenic Swiss Railways.

An opportunity...

Contact Jamie if this sounds like you... mention my name :)

We made it....

Will be happening...

Thanks everyone for your support....

Final chance to fund MISSION EXPLORE FOOD

Please 'pre-order' a copy by supporting the production of MISSION EXPLORE FOOD.
This is the FINAL DAY to fund us.
If we don't get just over a thousand pounds by 11 tonight we don't get the funding to make what will be a superb book for young and old alike...

Spreadsheet Data in Google Earth...

Thanks to Karl Donert of digitalearth for posting about a new tool called SPREADSHEET MAPPER 2.0 from Google.
This allows the creation of maps using Google Earth....

A guide to how to use it here...