David Rumsey Historical Map Layers for Google Earth. British Library Maps for Google Earth, from London: A Life in Ma. We've taken a selection of maps featured in the London: A Life in Maps exhibition and converted them into a Google Earth layer. Take a look at London as you've never seen it before by following the instructions below: 1. Download and install Google Earth (if you don't already have it, it's free from Google. Chicago Google Earth Overlays at Toolness. After learning about Google Earth and discovering Sam Perkins-Harbin’s excellent overlays including CTA maps and Chicago traffic overlays, I decided to play around with the technology a little myself.
Since I’m currently in the middle of reading Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago and I’m interested in Chicago history, I decided to start out with a few overlays related to those topics. In experimenting with these overlays, I’ve become particularly intrigued by the potential of Google Earth in combination with historical and sociological maps for educational purposes–for instance, some sort of open-ended, classroom-based exercise using overlays like this could be interesting. More notes on this are contained in the description of each overlay below. Also note that every overlay here is taken from an image that is publicly available on the web. If the owners of any of these images would like me to take them down, however, please let me know.
Earth Outreach - Tutorial: Spreadsheet Mapper 2.0. Some of the features of Spreadsheet Mapper 2.0 include: Six ready-made balloon designs to quickly create up to 400 attractive placemarks A simple HTML templating system to create your own balloon designs. Works in Google Earth and Maps. This tutorial shows you how to enter data in an on-line spreadsheet to generate a set of placemarks in Google Earth and Maps. Google Docs' web-based, collaborative editing allows your team members to simultaneously enter data and instantly publish updates.