Sightseeing with Google Satellite Maps, a large repository of interesting locations organized by country, provides links to both Google Maps and Google Earth.
RSS + KML
Google Sightseeing is the first blog (that I know of) to do something I think will become ubiquitous: Provide a site KML file in addition to an RSS file, as a matter of course.
It makes most obvious sense for a site devoted to places as viewed via Google mapping technology, but all blogs that at least occasionaly post content involving locations should consider publishing KML feeds; they provide another way into the site — Google Earth users who subscribe to blogs’ KML feeds to surf geographically. A trivial example: One blogger might review one restaurant, another might review a competitor around the corner; GE makes the link explicit.
D-ORT
German-speaking Google Earth users can now have 20,000 place names in Germany, Switzerland and Austria linked to their respective German-speaking Wikipedia.
Moroccan rally driving
A French blogger had his GPS data of an off-road trip through Morocco lying around. Now it’s been revived and uploaded as KML for Google Earth.
[And now I’m off to a wedding where there is no broadband, nor cell phones. Back in 3 days.]
Google Maps Mania
Google Maps Mania: “An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, ideas and tools being influenced by Google Maps.”
GoogleEarthing geocaching
Blogger Andy Fowler has written a dynamically updating KML network link that shows nearby geocaches for any view inside Google Earth, using the cache database from geocaching.com, the default repository for such stuff.
I wonder if using Google Earth to physically locate a geocache is going to be considered cheating.
The rise of the geotag
Over on geobloggers, a chart depicting the rise in the use of the “geo:lat” and “geo:long” tag for Flickr photos.
Most of that chart shows the growth before Google Earth was released. I expect that line to really head skyward now that you can automatically see Flickr photos inside GE.