Onions Have Layers, Google Earth Has Layers

Following on last week’s imagery update, Google Earth today saw a major update to its layers, including new “featured content” layers such as, I was delighted to learn, trail data for U.S. national parks. Also, 3D buildings for Japanese cities. (See also All Points Blog, Ogle Earth, Slashgeo, ZDNet.)

Update, Sept. 15: The relevant Google Blog entry.

Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 1:42 PM
Categories: Google Earth

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I lived in the Tokyo area for several years, and I must say the buildings are very accurate. They even have my small little house there, with the entryway and dormers correct and everything. They must have done this with radar, because to measure all this in person would have been hell.

John M. | 09/14/2006 at 5:17 PM | #

You might be interested in this note I posted on the GE bulletin board about GE’s new (beta) capability to add WMS layers.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/597931/an/0/page/0/gonew/1#UNREAD

I found a server that contains georeferenced images from the David Rumsey Collection and used the new GE capability to overlay a 1709 map of Kyoto, Japan on the high res GE images of Kyoto. The automatic alignments are quite good.

I think this capability is now fully functional in the MAC version as well. If you can’t get it to work I could send you a screen shot.

Werner Gansz | 09/15/2006 at 3:19 PM | #

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