Looking around the various tech reviews of the new Google Earth 5, one new feature seems to have slipped under the radar - the KML tags describing the new touring function include a seriously powerful method for defining smooth motion 3d animation.
I’ve been messing around with this a little, and hacked together a few [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Here’s a Google Earth time animation showing 3176 Walmart store openings in the USA, from 1962 to 2006. See how the business started out with a single retail location in Arkansas, then spread at an accelerating rate across different regions.
Video showing the animation running in Google Earth:
Grab the KML file for Google Earth here:
Walmart [...]
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