Sail the Book

Contacted by Ira Bickoff from Hudson Valley, New York, with a link to a project that has been put together linking story telling about the Oceans and Google Earth.
Check out the work, which is nicely put together, and could be adapted for other authors and place contexts.
A number of books have been included, such as Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle.

New Google Earth Tours

Via GE Blog
Apparently 100 000 new tours...

INVISIBLE PATHS

A little tip via the latest issue of SIGHTSEER.

You can create a tour that follows an invisible path. This is helpful if you want create a movie that follows a very specific route, but do not want to show a path or any placemarks. Just create a path with the color opacity set to 0% and play a tour that follows that path.

Discovery Channel Clips Tour

Thanks to Paul Williams for flagging up this new feature to view video clips on a Google Earth Tour.

SAGT Presentation Slides 45-48

A useful file from the Keyhole Bulletin Board marking on all the UK railway stations.

It's worth exploring the effects of changing some of the OPTIONS as they can enhance your user experience.
Go to TOOLS, OPTIONS.



Here are some GOOGLE TOURS set up. Google Touring is a great easy to use method of looking at sets of placemarks in an order that you decide, and at a pace that you decide.

SAGT Presentation Slides 49-52

Google Touring has some useful tours. How about creating your own ?
This is another Keyhole Bulletin board placemark - contains links to loads of 360 degree virtual panoramas which are scattered around Europe. Well worth visiting. Similar to the Eye 2 Eye product which can be purchased on CD Rom via e-Learning credits (as I did...)