Ordnance Survey Mapping News

All schools should receive a copy of OS Mapping News twice a year.
The Winter 2006 issue (Issue 31) has just arrived and features a few items of interest for Google Earth users.
There is an article on using Google Earth Plus (an upgrade which costs just $20) and a GPS unit to create and map a historic trail on Cyprus.
There is also an article by Noel Jenkins relating to his San Francisco activity "Visualising a Safer City" which uses Google Earth to look at decision-making related to the location of a new building in the city.
It includes a file to download, and the article gives all the details for working through this tried and tested activity.
There are full details at the JUICY GEOGRAPHY page, from where I borrowed this Google Earth screenshot.
Thanks to Noel for mentioning my GeographyPages Users Guide at the end of the article!

Noel's new Blog..

Noel Jenkins has made a characteristically good job of his latest venture: a blog to carry all the content from Digital Geography and Juicy Geography which relate to Google Earth. He mentions the new BLUE MARBLE plug-in (click the link to go to Frank Taylor's GEARTHBLOG and get hold of the plug in, thereby allowing me to kill 2 birds with one stone, and also links through to this blog, for which many thanks.
Check out the website at http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/blog/

Google Earth Presentation on You Send It

For a limited time, my SAGT presentation (without the annotations on the blog) can be downloaded via YouSendIt.
Get in quick by clicking the link HERE. As Tom Biebrach has said "it's almost like being there", except for the bad jokes and the irreplacable experience of meeting me for real...

Also heard from Quentin d'Souza, who works over in Toronto, Ontario, who has produced a number of interesting resources. He has passed on details of a SLIDE SHARE file which is the first stage of a planned online tutorial for using Google Earth: one to watch.

And finally for this post, over on Juicy Geography, Noel Jenkins has now added FLASH TUTORIALS to his San Francisco Google Earth resource looking at earthquake susceptibility. This is a fine resource. Please support Noel and his work!

SAGT Presentation Slides 99-101

GEOGRAPH is one of my top ten most useful sites for Geographers. Fab images taken in context and viewable in Google Earth. Why not print off a checklist and go out and grab your local area.