- An impressive piece of sleuthing: Christoph Burgdorfer dates a Google Earth satellite image to within a 5-minute timeframe.
- 3DNature is working on using the new features in KML 2.1 to improve its export functionality. (Previously, Ogle Earth found fault with a workaround.)
The rest of this post falls victim to the demands of World Cup Football (i.e. follow Planet GeoSpatial to read it first):
- High Earth Orbit points out that GeoNames does reverse geocoding. In other words, coordinates go in, an address comes out.
- On Digitally Distributed Environments, Andrew Hudson-Smith notices accuracy problems when importing from SketchUp into Google Earth.
- Brian Flood reviews the possibilities of the new features in KML 2.1.
Too bad Christopher didn’t know about the “DG” layers. He could have narrowed his search to January 30, 2002 in about 10 seconds. That combined with his estimate that the photo was taken at around noon would have substantially reduced the amount of time it took him to narrow it to 5 minutes…