- This is the second mention in blogs, but I haven’t seen it confirmed by a news service: Apparently, Google Earth’s servers are inaccessible in Morocco. (Either that or somebody had trouble connecting and before you know it, a meme is born.) Can anybody in Morocco confirm or deny this story?
- Oracle publishes a detailed technical article by mappinghacks.com‘s Rich Gibson on how to Build a Google Earth Interface on Oracle Database XE. The examples use PHP. (Via Arun’s Blog)
- Le Blogue du LFG finds another remarkable KML resource: Methalithic portal’s online database of over 15,000 prehistoric monuments is now online.
For my own reference, now:
- James Fee is right. Loc.alize.us‘s Flickr geotagging bookmarklet is the easiest way to georeference one’s photos. Once they’re in there, view them in Google Earth thus.
- Geody is a very interesting geosearch portal. Unique feature: Look up stuff on the moon and other planets. back on Earth, search results come linked to Google Earth, NASA World Wind, etc…
Beware of the Megalithic Portal Google Map download. It does not work and also infected my laptop with a virus.
THe current version of it does seem to generate a parsing error in Google Earth 3, but there is no virus in that file, just markup — I checked, even though there is no known exploit using KMZ files with Google Earth. So the virus on your laptop got there some other way, I’m afraid. Good luck.
Hello, there is no virus in the file
It doesn’t work with G.E. version 3.
This is due to it having a lot of ‘foreign’ characters in the European site names.
Google have changed the way these are handled between 3 and 4 so it can’t made compatible with both. (as far as I know)