Happened to notice the "By Tony Ruscoe" on the article – nice guest blog post.
Is Philipp off enjoying his honeymoon? |
Nothing really new and/or interresting in fact
except the mention of Tony ;-) |
yes Philipps on a mini vaccation
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/67339.html |
Don't forget that NASA's Open Source World Wind 3D Digital Globe offers all sorts of stuff like this. Have for several years.
They also have Wikipedia data merged in. Compliments GE nicely.
http:///www.worldwindcentral.com
Latest add-ons:
http://worldwindadd-ons.blogspot.com/
One offers real time weather, another poverty data, and a third, Global Population info.
All add-ons here:
http://www.worldwindcentral.com/add-ons/list
Also, still waiting release of Skyline's 3D Globe. Looks cool. Review here.
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2212&trv=1
More here (including screen caps) and alerts:
http://www.skylineglobe.com/Registration/NoticeRegistration.aspx
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I saw this already earlier this week after I updated Google Earth (while checking out the new hi-res imagery that was just announced then). Didn't think it was new. Cool to see Google doing this, though. |
Gary, I'd use World Wind, but it doesn't seem to run on OS X. Because of that, Google Earth (even with all its bugs) is what I use. |
A weather layer would be interesting to see. H/L pressure systems. Rain/Sunny (w/forecasts). Temperatures. Any hurricanes/tropical storms (maybe projected paths) . With the cloud overlays. Doppler Radar. Hey if _Desktop Earth_ can refresh every 3 hours with satellite images of the clouds so can Google Earth. Maybe they could work with weather.com |
For details on these layers, and the even more significant additional layer updates, read Google Earth Blog's summary here:
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/09/huge_new_layers_upda.html
Also, read about the new version of Google Earth 4 Beta:
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/09/new_version_of_googl.html |
Commenter Yu: check out this story about a variety of weather tools available for Google Earth including hurricane trackers:
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/07/weather_and_sto.html |
