Excerpt from today’s Google Blog: “The new Geographic Web layer we released today is one of those features. We’ve taken the rich data of Wikipedia, Panoramio, and the Google Earth Community and made a browsable layer in Google Earth. Now you can fly anywhere in the world and see what people have written about it, [...]
Archive for 2006
Online GIS Tutorials
GIS, mapping, and spatial reasoning are the focus of Latitude, NITLE’s GIS Initiative. It promotes the use of mapping and GIS for the purposes of developing and enhancing a spatial understanding of liberal arts curricula. The NITLE Geographic Information System Initiative provides resources to get started with GIS. Including free online geographic information systems tutorials.
Educational Uses of Google Earth
Below are a few pointers. Google suggests: http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html This is k12: http://www.teachinghacks.com/2006/11/03/google-earth-as-a-classroom-tool/ From the Google Earth blog: http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/08/back_to_school.html
