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This is a quick Google Earth timeline animation of the recent satellite collision between the Russian Cosmos 2251 and the US iridium 33.
Update 2009-02-14: Two ways to view this now.
- A Google Earth browser plug-in version
- Or the original KML file for regular Google Earth below
Cosmos 2251 and Iridium 33 Collide
Use the time [...]

Animations Animation, Cosmos 2251, Google Earth, Iridium 33, KML, Satellites, Visualization

Here’s a browser based version of the (Feb 2009) UK Snowstorm Twitter activity, animated inside the Google Earth Plugin.
This mashes up 3800 Tweets over the course of a week. Users posting their location and the amount of snowfall they were seeing on a scale of 0 to 10. You can see [...]

GE Plugin, Visualization Animation, Google Earth Plugin, Snow, Twitter, UK, Visualization

Here’s a KML and Javascript(!) hack for the new Google Earth 5.
It overlays a time zone map and allows you to click anywhere on the globe to see a running clock with the current time for that location.
Grab the KML file here:
World Clock
This uses normal KML to display a balloon when a polygon is [...]

Visualization Google Earth, Google Earth 5, Javascript, KML, Visualization

A much more significant event than the release of Google Earth 5.0 yesterday was the fact the much of Britain (particularly S. England) was covered by a sprinkling of snow.
As a knock-on of this there’s been a large amount of media buzz about the use of Twitter as a mob-sourced geo-mashup [...]

Visualization Animation, Google Earth 5, KML, Snow, Twitter, UK, Visualization

Latest version of Google Earth, 5.0 is now out. This is a massive ugrade to Google Earth, which takes the application forwards in lots of new ways. For sheer scope and range of new features easily the biggest update yet.
Headline features are Historic satellite images, 3D Ocean terrain, [...]

News Google Earth, Google Earth 5, Historical Imagery, KML, Mars, News, Ocean, Tour