Telegraph developer weekend: Showing off the possibilites of Google Earth
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 26 April 2008 at 12:15
Tags: Google, Google Maps, Online, Telegraph.co.uk, telegraph
Google’s Chewy Trewhella been presenting the sort of things are possible with the search giant’s various APIs, particularly the geographic mashups in Google Earth.
he acknowledges that despite the vast data available on Google Earth, the company has been having difficulty keeping people interested in using the tool beyond a few initial experiments.
He shows off some projects that use Google Earth to display the sort of information that might be interesting to a news site:
- Property website Nestoria used the Google mapping API to build its site and plot different layers of information in various neighbourhoods.
- A tool that explains the tomb of Tutankhamun in three dimensions.
- A layer that shows global oil consumption as a bar graph where each country’s height reflects its consumption.
- A layer that shows the effects of rising sea levels. He demonstrates that if the sea level ere to rise by 20m, the Google and Telegraph offices in Victoria would be one tiny island of dry land in London.
- Fboweb.com plots aircraft flight data in real time, plotting airplanes’ locations and flightpaths with planes at the correct altitude.
Tags: Google, Google Maps, Online, Telegraph.co.uk, telegraph
