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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

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 [...]

Visualization Animation, Google Earth, History, KML, Visualization, Walmart