Photo Track is tool for the arrangement of photos on track according to GeoEXIF or GPS data.
This post is network link to my trip (start). I use Glofiish x800 cameras and inner GPS without of additional software. GeoEXIF generated automatically.
View in Google Earth
New Getterrain feature. For Plus and Pro versions only.
Datasource - GE terrain
Tools - KML2KML plus - http://xbbster.googlepages.com/kml2kml
Model include:
- points
- wireframe
- surfaces
- contours
Examples:
Everest View in Google Earth
Perm powerdam View in Google Earth
Home page
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KML Tools
Toolbar. List of modules.
Region tools
Tools for assigning region to placemarks, groundoverlays and folders with specifided LOD parameters. Very often you have large vector kml data that is loaded in GE. To load your data more optimum it is necessary to specify regions and levels of detail (LOD) for each object or for group of objects. ‘Region tool’ solve this problem. This tool opens your kml/kmz data, calculates extents for each object or group of objects, according the options you specified and stores ‘Region’ and ‘Lod’ tags in your kml/kmz file.GE Sky mode is supported. For more info about Region and LOD in KML see official GE help.
Distridute tools
The tool for splitting KML file into set of small filesbase on folder structure of the main KML file.
Assembly tools
Assembly is the tools fof assembling of all data under network links into one and collect all overlay resources in one folder or KMZ file. We can use result for desktop (enterprise) solution without internet.
Reorganize tools
The tools for reorganization of the KML file structure
Import tools
The tools for importing data from other (GPS) formats (NMEA, GPX)
GMaps tiler
The tool for create image tiles for using in Google Maps
Get Terrain - Plus version (in beta)
The tool for creating terrain model of the selected view (points, wireframe and polygon surface) based on GEarth DEM
MapWiki v20 now in release
- Appengine+django
- lines, polygons is added
- Earth mode (!)
- GeoRSS, email subscription is added
- embed RSS reader in balloon is added (!)
- Feedburner RSS service is addedView in Google Earth
Subscribe to Events On Map by Email
Home page
Google has released version 0.2 of libkml
http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2008/05/libkml-marches-on.html
This lib is tested in Amazon EC2 instance.
We can see first results.View in Google Earth
GIS planet: Mapwiki gadget
Mapwiki gadget in spreadsheets
How to insert Gadget in spreadsheets see on http://docs.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=87589&topic=14186
1. Menu>Insert>Gadget
2. Custom...
3. In URL insert http://xbbmapwiki.googlemashups.com/gadget.xml
4. Set size and position
5. Public spreadsheets
See also http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1165615/an/0/page/0#1165615
Google App engine is new enviroment for web2 developers.
It is example of KML generation.
We use http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tut.html#network_links
example
Links:
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/
http://code.google.com/appengine/groups.html
http://code.google.com/appengine View in Google Earth
Metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources. Included are deposit name, location, commodity, deposit description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, resources, and references.
Credits: http://tin.er.usgs.gov/mrds/
Europe and RussiaView in Google Earth
AfricaView in Google Earth
Australia and OceaniaView in Google Earth
AsiaView in Google Earth
South America.View in Google Earth
Caribbean islandsView in Google Earth
CanadaView in Google Earth
North America without of USA and CanadaView in Google Earth
USA
AlaskaView in Google Earth
CaliforniaView in Google Earth
Oregon and WashingtonView in Google Earth
Arizona and NevadaView in Google Earth
Idaho and UtahView in Google Earth
New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, MontanaView in Google Earth
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North DakotaView in Google Earth
Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, MinnesotaView in Google Earth
Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, KentuckyView in Google Earth
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, MichiganView in Google Earth
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North CarolinaView in Google Earth
Virginia, West Virginia, District Of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, DelawareView in Google Earth
New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, MaineView in Google Earth
Hawaii, Puerto RicoView in Google Earth
World network links (300000 objects)View in Google Earth
East Ural. Geologic map. 1 000 000View in Google Earth
West Ural. Geologic map. 1:500 000. 1979.View in Google Earth
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Download KML
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In new version of Labels, I've added a permanent link to the KML file.
Now you can use the permanent link to generate labels without having
to save and then share them.
How to use the permanent link:
1. Enter the address and press Center Map
2. Press Move to center
3. Enter your text, set the style
4. Press Refresh
5. Go to bottom of the page and select KML Permalink
6. Copy text of permanent link to clipboard - Example
7. Open GMaps and paste link in the Searth Maps box
8. See and enjoy results, then save it to My Maps
9. Press Link to this page and select Paste HTML to embed it in a
website or Customize and preview embedded map
10. Copy HTML to clipboard and paste it into your blog or web page
11. See results, enjoy.
Developer: Serge Devyatkov
Leader: Valery Hronusov
Visual interface to Text to Image service
Home page LabelsView in Google Earth
Eugene Potapov
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Mail to Map/SMS-to-Map/Mail to GE service: new twist in (r)Evolution
The idea of creating a simple “Mail-to-Map” service came when I was tracking White-Tailed Deer in the suburbs of Pennsylvania. The GPS coordinates were send by the collared deer as a SMS/Text Message via GSM/cell-phone networks to a server in Sweden, and then relayed to my e-mail account. I was surprised to find out that there was no way for me to gain access to the server, so the creation of dynamic kml/kmz files straight from the server was out of the question. All what I was left with was a set of e-mails with 8 coordinates in each.
Here is my first attempt for a solution, which reads coordinates in e-mail and relays coordinates in real-time to the Google-Earth/Google Map service. I believe this is the fist successful solution of Mail-to-Map service which is based entirely on free web services. Let me know, if it is not correct.
Important notice: since the displayed coordinates belongs to a live animal (currently a white-tailed Deer nicknamed Thor), by reading this page and looking at the map you are accepting terms of agreement: “do not harm the animal in anyway’. Actually it lives on private grounds or a preserve territory anyway.
So, if you want to see the resulting dynamic map, skip this section and click at the map links or download the kml file.
If you are interested in details, here they are.
1. Set up a blog dedicated exclusively to ‘mail-to-map’ service. There are number of possibilities for doing that. For this project I used http://u-mail-to-map.blogspot.com/ Be sure that the blog is set for only for you to edit.
2. Set up e-mail address within blog setting, so that you can e-mail the data to the blog. Use this e-mail address for the step 3.
3. Set automatic mail forward to the e-mail address set in the step 2. I use g-mail account with associated filters to forward only messages referred to particular collar (individual) number.
4. set up a spread-sheet in google-documents and link the blog to the spreadsheets. I use command “=importxml("http://u-mail-to-map.blogspot.com/","//p[1]/text()")”. The resulting spreadsheet is here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pb-UYBP_92h9qQKwbVy07Zg&gid=0
5. Consult google-spreadsheet documentation how to filter/sort the location, and this posts ( http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Number=725524 ; http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/550183 ) how to construct kml files from the spreadsheets. Mind, that if the coordinates are ‘blank’, the google-maps/google-earth service will treat such locations as ‘syntax error”. In my spread-sheets I corrected “GPS timeouts” by substituting “blanks” with average locations for entire sms message (8 gps fixes).
6. Now link the kml portion of the spreadsheet (http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pb-UYBP_92h9qQKwbVy07Zg&gid=4&output=txt&range=Q2) to google maps (example here), and create “Network link” as advised in this post (). The resulting KML file is here. Do not forget to “publish” the spreadsheet, and tick the widnow “Automatically re-publish when changes are made”. The address “pb-UYBP_92h9qQKwbVy07Zg” is unique for your spreadsheet.
7. Now, important notice about refresh rates. In my example the coordinated arrive via email every 40 min, blog is updated almost instantly, spreadsheets are updated/re-published c. every 5 mins, but I have notice that it may be as long as 20 mins on some occasions. So it is prudent to set refresh rate to 20-40 min in the network link, so it will deliver the up-to-date coordinates.
8. For web-pages and imbedded iframe links: it is important to set “No-cache” options, and refresh rates. I used all possible solutions to make the web page browser independent:
meta equiv="CACHE-CONTROL" content="NO-CACHE"
meta equiv="PRAGMA" content="NO-CACHE"
meta equiv="Expires" content="0"
The last tag was instrumental to tame IE.
Refresh rate was set to 900 sec by the command
meta equiv="Refresh" content="900"
Failure to set auto-refresh and no-cache options will result in displaying out-of-date locations.
Important is to center the map on your coordinates. I achieve it my pointing g-maps to get ll from the cell in my spreadsheet: “ll=http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pb-UYBP_92h9qQKwbVy07Zg&gid=1&output=txt&range=G2”.
The resulting Google-Map is here http://www.potapov-nature.com/forBA/deer/map4.html , and kml file (network link) for Google-Earth is here.
A block diagram of the totally free web based Mail-to-Map service is below.
Potentially such simple Mail-to-Map solution can be used for a variety of applications such as satellite telemetry, fleet monitoring, iphone coordinates display, sms-to-map service, etc.
New version Superoverlay 2.0.2 is released.
Sky Mode is supported.View in Google Earth
Credits
KML2KML
Sky mode is supported alsoView in Google Earth
Russian geoblog (геоблог) is released.
Example of geological publication
Full text
Идея блога - создать электронный журнал, посвященный проблемам геоинформатики и естественных наук.
С нашей стороны здесь попытка решить несколько задач:
1. Использовать наиболее современные методы создания и систематизации публикаций
2. Помочь освоить эти методы специалистам
3. Создать возможность специалистам публиковать свои результаты в компактные сроки и на хорошем уровне
KML2KML is released
Home page (beta)
KML2KML is a stand-alone Google Earth application for the reorganization of KML datasets and creating view based regions in all KML or KMZ files ($)
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Welcome to new blog "Multi-Dimensional Google Earth" by Giasen !
Enjoy!
via http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/10/kml-articles-abound-its-about-time.html
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