The distribution maps of the Global Register of Migratory Species are being converted into KML by the ever vigilant Declan Butler, who covers avian influenza over at Nature. He used Brian Flood’s Arc2Earth tool.
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Brian Flood’s first look at ArcWeb 2006
Brian Flood plays with ESRI’s new ArcWeb 2006, and looks at using content served as KML in clients other than Google Earth. It looks like the scope of his Arc2Earth application is expanding into something quite formidable.
Google Space
No, it’s not what I guessed it might be from the name, but it’s an interesting project nonetheless. From tomorrow’s press release (embargoes are so old media:-):
Google Space Launches at London’s Heathrow Airport to Fill Passengers’ Dead Time
… On Thursday 24 November, Google is launching Google Space at Heathrow’s Terminal One. Google Space is a laboratory comprising Google pods, which travellers can access for free once through security to log onto the Internet, check their mail and use Google tools to find out about their destination.
A big part of this set-up involves Google Earth. It should be quite a crowd attractor with people, I suspect. Here is Google Space’s home page.
Converging on convergence
A post on Second Life Future Salon expands on some of the implications brought on by the ease with which models can/will be imported into Google Earth and into Second Life, now that there are conversion tools for 3DsMax.
Elsewhere, they’re converging World of WarCraft with Second Life, sort of. Looks like all these virtual worlds just can’t wait to get mashed up (just look at yesterday’s post on Civ4, for example).
I wonder if we’ll end up having virtual overlays for Google Earth that serve similar entertainment functions as Second Life — allowing for fantasy apartment buildings in NYC, for example. But even a Google Earth layer suffers from scarcity… unless we each got our own, though that wouldn’t be as much fun.
OGC Support or no?
All Points Blog’s Adena responds to Google Earth’s John Hanke’s response to the French security firm’s review of Google Earth. Specifically, she takes issue with to what extent Google Earth supports open standards such as WMS.
Earth calling Tierra
In my feed reader this morning:
Unfortunately, registering on the site doesn’t let me access the page directly (I lack permission, fortunately my RSS reader doesn’t). Here are the direct links to the images referenced, for googleterre.com and googletierra.com.
GoogleTerre is in French, not Spanish, and both French and Spanish surfers tend to prefer their own top-level domain suffixes, so I don’t know how many takers there will be at $1,200. If anyone is considering it, go.ogleearth.com is available for just $1,195:-)
Blue Marble Civilization IV
Off topic, but so on target: Blue Marble Civilization IV — use NASA’s World Wind data replacement graphics for your Civilization IV game.
Perhaps Sid Meier might consider the Google Earth graphics engine for Civ5? :-)
(Via Jahee.com.)