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The official Google Lat Long blog informs us they added a layer in Google Earth to show geolocated YouTube videos. This is not a surprise. From the official blog: "Now you can find YouTube videos connected to specific locations right in Google Earth. Our new browseable layer of geotagged videos works a lot like our Google Book Search layer, only it shows you the locations referenced in specific videos instead of books. Let's say you're jetting off to Paris. Before you go, you can watch the sunset filmed from the top floor of the Eiffel Tower, among other clips of popular spots in the City of Lights." Meanwhile, the GEB informs us: "Important caveat: on Windows you can view the video embedded inside the placemark description bubble (GE version 4.2+ only), but with the Mac or Linux you will have to click on a screenshot from the video and view the video in your browser instead."
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For more information and the longer New York Times article, please visit the All Points Blog. See also related stories below.
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Seero - Putting Video on the Map
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Introduced over the geoblogs about a month ago, Seero is a new tool to broadcast geolocated videos. From the GEB description: "hat I find interesting is Seero's ability to not only share location of a video (like the geotagging of YouTube videos), but you can actually play the Video alongside a GPS track and see the changing location on a dynamically updating Google Map mashup. I'm not sure of the utility of live broadcasting for this medium, but they also support playing them back from archives. " I think the first one to mention Seero is Ogle Earth, additional information can be found in another Ogle Earth entry and over APB, mentioning KML support as well as this informative GEB entry.
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