Bit By Bit

Workshop notes (podcast to follow)
Dean’s giving us a great tour of his life using Google Earth (childhood to now)…

Showed how to play a tour… actually driving down the road from his house in Canada to Boston. (didn’t know it could do that!).

Looking at a great model of Fenway Park. Dean is showing us where he and Will Richardson and David Jakes sat last night. Now he is putting on an overlay with pictures that have been geo-tagged to show photos taken from Fenway. The photos that will appear are in “real time” (networked).

Dean has his notes on wiki:

http://shareski.wikispaces.com/ge

Overlays are .kml files.

“It’s a great mashup tool”

FlashEarth is another tool. Uses other maps to show different views. Very nice!

You can save your maps in Google Maps. Within Google Maps, you have the ability to add html. Goggle Maps are becoming much more powerful. Example: StreetView! Traffic Reports.

Sketchup. Great tool, great tutorials.

Picassa… another app. allows for geotagging.

Yuan.cc maps to bring in your flickr photos and geotag them.

Unype… take your skype account and your google earth account and bring the person “in to where you are”. For example: Jeff Utecht took Dean on a guided tour in Shangai. It puts an avatar of you into the map.

“These tools are powerful enough… but when we connect it with other people… it’s incredible.” Connections are a powerful thing.

Twittervision tracks live tweets. I can log in and just see the people that I follow.

Very cool United States Holocaust Memorial Museum overlay.

How old are the images on Google Earth? It ranges depending on the site.

How do we use this for real world application. Example… this Pool Cleaner… he went to Google Earth, sees who has pools, drops off flyers for those people.

Amazon Indians: using Google Earth to track where people are doing illegal logging/mining, and they take those photos to the government.

Google Earth Pro is free for educators. You can create “movies” of what you’ve done on Google Earth.

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