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• Phillip,
  
  

  
  Here's a quick one. I've updated geobloggers to supply a Google Earth feed. So geotagged Flickr Images can be pulled down onto Google Earth.
  

  
  

  
  There's more info over here...
  
  http://geobloggers.blogspot.com/
  

  
  

  
  Screen Shots...
  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/revdancatt/sets/502920/
  

  
  

  
  Google Earth URLS...
  
  Around Where 2.0
  
  Grand Canyon
  
  A single users photos plotted on Google Earth
  
  

  
  

  
  I'm sure you can figure out that the URLs are most hackable :)
  

  
  

  
  And I've been told by the Google Earth people to keep an eye out for the "view-based refresh", which I'm assuming will allow you to call custom URLs, triggered by the view changing and access to some Google Earth variables (i.e. $lat or %lon or some such).
  

  
  

  
  Video looks great, good luck with the conferance!
  

  Posted by: RevDanCatt on June 29, 2005 at 1:52 AM

• Oh. Around Where 2.0 link should be...
  
  This instead
  Centered on lat/lon via the URL rather than using a range.
  

  Posted by: RevDanCatt on June 29, 2005 at 2:00 AM

• If you have a Motionbased.com account and upload your GPS tracks there, they will automatically export a Google Earth (Keyhole) file. Save it to your computer and then open it in Google Earth. It shows up just the same in the free version as in the pro version. It's an extra step, but at least it's free.

  Here's the motionbased.com blog entry about it

  Posted by: RobbyB on June 29, 2005 at 6:04 AM

• rev sent me this-- neat!

  Just a quick one I thought you may be interested in.

  In Google Earth, if you right click under My Places you can add a
  "Network Link", and get Google Earth to call a webserver based on a
  couple of settings, i.e. every 60 seconds or once the map has stopped
  moving and so on.

  It appends BBOX=minLon,minLat,maxLon,maxLat to the URL (the bounding box).

  So as you move around with your GPS unit wired into Google Earth, it can
  request data (in KML format) from a server based on your location.

  I've done this with geotagged Flickr Photos, if you add...
  http://www.geobloggers.com/makeXML.cfm
  ...as the network place and get it to refresh when the camera stops,
  it'll download the nearest 50 tagged Flickr Photos (I think it only
  works under 800miles altitude).

  There's all sorts of neat location based services that can be hacked
  together with this :)

  Happy Hacking, and good luck with Where 2.0

  Posted by: philliptorrone on June 29, 2005 at 9:07 AM

• Wow! That is fantastic! Am I the only one who wishes that there was a Linux version? I would even settle for a Mac version! :-)

  Posted by: blackrazorus on June 29, 2005 at 10:26 AM

• *yawn*. Wake me up when it runs on something besides Windows.

  Posted by: dogzilla on June 29, 2005 at 12:33 PM

• I went to the Google Earth download page and it says that the beta is closed and I can't download anything. Does anyone have a link to the Google Earth software that works? Or, can someone post a copy of the software they have already downloaded on a server so all of us "latecomers" can take a peek?

  Posted by: jason.sutton on June 29, 2005 at 5:47 PM

• The link below is a Pocket PC progam that makes it really easy to create KML files using GPS. With the press of a button you can create the KML files and send it anywhere as an email attachment. If you have mobile email capabilities using GPRS or WiFi, then you an do this instantly. Otherwise the email will be sent as soon as you synchonise your PPC with your desktop computer through ActiveSync.

  The program is called SurveyArea3 and can be downloaded at http://www.wildsoft.org/SurveyArea3

  Posted by: wtb on January 13, 2007 at 6:09 AM

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