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Layers Updated and New Weather Layers in Google Earth
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from the rain-on-your-computer-thanks-to-Google dept.
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The Google Earth blog details the rearrangement of Google Earth layers, including a new weather layer: "For example: Featured Content is now Gallery, Populated Places falls under Borders and Labels, the many layers describing stores, geographic features, sports venues etc. are now under Places of Interest. [...] The big new content layer is the new Weather layer. This is something I've wanted to see since the beginning. Right now, the new weather layer contains three sub layers: Clouds, Radar, and Conditions and Forecasts." See also related stories below. Update: 11/09 17:06 GMT by S : Here's the official Google LatLong blog entry on the new weather layer.
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Application Domains: Time-Enabled Norwegian Weather Forecasts in Google Earth
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The Ogle Earth presents a nice application of the time-enabled Google Earth kml: Norwegian weather forecasts. From the blog: "It comes with cute-as-a-button icons, color-coded temperatures (which I really like — check northern Norway) and — the pièce de resistance — it's all time-enabled. Icons change from suns during the day to moons at night, you can click them for more local info, and if you turn on the preciptiation overlays, you'll see that cloud layers there match the icons. [...] As you've noticed, GEs time support still leaves a lot to be desired, but I think it works fairly well in this example."
Application Domains: Recent Weather Satellite Animations in Google Earth
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The Google Earth Blog shares kml files for recent weather satellite animations in Google Earth. From the blog: "[The kml files] will load up the most recent few hours of infrared (IR) satellite photos as a time animation in Google Earth 4. This means you can watch animations of clouds moving during the past few hours on the 3D surface of GE."
Application Domains: Best Storm Tracking and Weather Tools for Google Earth
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We have to admit, even if storm tracking is not your job, the power of virtual globes is shown with these storm tracking and weather tools for Google Earth from the Google Earth Blog. From the blog: "One of Google Earth's most powerful features is the ability to pull in real-time information from other sites and overlay the information for visualization (thanks to the network link). Weather data is one of my favorite applications in Google Earth of this ability. Imagine pulling in the latest satellite photos, radar animations, hurricane tracking, live web cams on the ground, sea surface temperature analysis, etc."
Technology: Weatherbonk Weather Mashup
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APB links to Weatherbonk, a weather-oriented mashup site which mashes "[...] data from The Weather Channel, WeatherBug, Google Maps, DOT street-level webcams, road speeds, and traffic [...]"
Application Domains: New Weather Mapplet for Google Maps
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From the
GISuser.com web site : "The Weather Channel Interactive Introduces New Weather Mapplet for Google Maps. The Weather mapplet on Google Maps will be a part of the Featured Content section in the My Maps utility. The mapplet can be found by visiting maps.google.com. To find the weather layer on Google Earth, simply activate weather box under 'layers' in the sidebar." See this web site for more details : http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/13654/
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