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GeoTagging is all the rage, but I’m proposing a new “geovlogged” tag for videoblogging. Combine videos with the context of both time and location and view it in both Google Maps and Google Earth.

I would Google “Google Virtual Flash Earth” But that’s just me. This lets you use the MSN Virtual Earth interface on Google Maps, and also switch between gMaps and VE.

This reminds me of Google Earth (gmaps’ executable and fully featured counterpart), only in a smaller, flash based form. It takes the functionality of Google Earth and makes available for Mac’s and Linux PCs. Great Stuff this is what Google should of done in the first place. I like all these map add-ons, improvements and combinations.

Very nice usage of both tools. but it did increase Firefox RAM usage by 100MB. and probably will keep going up. Funny you can use Microsoft to find censored locations and you can switch right on over to Google and look at what your “Not supposed” to see with less effort than before imagined.

View the Earth as currently seen from a satellite in Earth orbit, choose the satellite from the list. But I was kinda hoping it was an actual view FROM some of those satellites,rather than just a simulated view of what the Earth would look like from their current position.

I long for the day that we can look at streaming satellite footage, and the satellites would be able to zoom and capture video in realtime, just like in Enemy of the State.

WiGLE is an online database of Wireless Access Points (802.11A/B/G) that is contributed to by folks using Netstumbler, Kismet and other war driving tools. WiGLE has a web interface of its own as well as Java desktop client called JiGLE.

Here’s a way that can take the cached data from JiGLE (found in the \JiGLE\WiGLEnet\data directory after you do a query) and turn it into a KML (Keyhole Markup Language) file that’s easy to import into the Google Earth desktop application. With the generated KML file and Google Earth it’s easy to view and parse the access point found by WiGLE users.

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Microsoft previewed on Monday a layered, geo-mapping service featuring aerial photographs (taken over cities at a 45-degree angle) and satellite images that it promised for later this year. This service will help MSN compete against some Google maps.

Here’s a simple way of tagging photos with the location of where you took them on planet Earth. There are lots of ways to do this, and I’ll write about those later- but this is fun thing to do over the holiday weekend. As an added bonus- how to see your photos on a cool Mapping application called Mappr, as well as Google Earth…

Pretty neat but a lot of work. Check out QuakeMap - it will take your GPS track log and photos and automatically link the photos on a relief, topographic or aerial photo map - also is a great tool for geocaching.

You can use the plugin for Firefox: greasemonky plus a script I got off of GeoBloggers.

The GeoBloggers way of doing it is easy. You use firefox, get the Greasemonky plugin, then get the script from GeoBloggers. Then all you do is upload a photo to flickr, click “add geotags”, and use the resulting google maps page (with plugins now) to find the coordinates on the map. No GPS needed. You can do this with old images if you are sure of where they were taken. It’s VERY quick and easy to do it this way.

BTW, Geocaching is also great fun! I’m totally addicted.

This self-explanatory page will convert a Maps location to a KMZ file, and vice versa…not sure how useful this may be…but one example would be if you are working at a computer without GE and would like to save the places you found on Maps (or in reverse: if you want to print a true road map from Maps of a place you found with GE)