Google Earth, an Eye on Katrina

September 10, 2005

On CNN this morning they ran a segment about Google’s satellite imagery available through Google Earth. I’ve been excited about Google Maps and Google Earth for awhile, so enjoyed watching them show shots of New Orleans before and after Katrina. Google has made updated Katrina related imagery available on their site. One thing CNN said that amazed me was that just a couple years ago they paid over $10,000 for access to satellite imagery Iraq. Now Google is providing a similar service to the general public for free.

If you don’t have Google Earth yet, go get it. This is one of the coolest desktop applications I’ve played with in a long time. I like that I can bookmark my favorite locations and add notes. Then I can play back a tour of those points automatically. I’m certain I will end up wasting a lot more hours using this. I’m even considering paying the fairly reasonable $20 yearly fee to get Google Earth Plus.

The following are some fantastic related sites that have sprung up since the inception of Google Maps and Earth.

Another great must see site is Google Sightseeing. They’ve highlighted some of the most interesting things to see in Google Maps or Earth.

I’ve also recently been turned on to Google Earth Hacks. This site has a lot of great downloadable features to work with Google Earth specifically.

The Google Earth KML Tutorial has information about how to create KML files for sharing Map data.

Finally gCensus has combined census data with Google Maps to produce some fantastic results as you zoom in. This is a very useful resource.
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61 Responses to “Google Earth, an Eye on Katrina”

  1. BorkWeb on September 11th, 2005 8:38 am

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    After posting about Google Maps’ implementation of satellite imagery from Hurricane Katrina, it was suggested that I do a follow-up on Google Earth. I think I’ll go one step further and elaborate on some of Google’s hottest service…

  2. NoSheep! » Google Maps API on September 12th, 2005 4:45 pm

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  3. Adrian Verzaal on September 27th, 2005 12:41 pm

    Which website for individual sites?

  4. jaya on November 2nd, 2005 10:40 am

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  6. Pandora on January 4th, 2006 7:28 am

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  7. zbtirrell on January 4th, 2006 7:29 pm

    yeah, that is unfortunate… For her sake I’ve now obfuscated it…

  8. farooq on February 16th, 2006 7:11 pm

    I want the map of mumbai.

  9. smiley on March 4th, 2006 11:28 am

    i want a map of india,such that i can have aerial view of each place in the country.

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    I WANT THE MAP OF MY HOUSE IN MUMBAI

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  15. sania on October 8th, 2006 4:52 am

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    I want map of my town (Lansdowne)in Uttaranchal, India.

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  27. simon G on December 24th, 2006 10:02 am

    hi i try to see my home land ,but it is diffical
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  28. tanvir khorshed roman on December 26th, 2006 5:49 am

    plz update the map of dhaka and bangladesh. thanks

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    i want a sattelite image of Bangladesh

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    i want 2 see kanpur(u.p)

  32. ronak on February 19th, 2007 10:39 am

    i want to see the gujarat in india

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    i want the picture of my house

  34. RAJASHEKAR on February 27th, 2007 1:35 am

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  37. HASSAN REZVANI on March 9th, 2007 11:05 pm

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    MANY THANKS H REZVANI

  38. aewaz on April 11th, 2007 6:44 am

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  39. tony on July 4th, 2007 12:46 pm

    very nice. you ladies should shoot more shots they are fantastic ,looks like you all had lots of fun. happy 4th of july tony

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  45. AYYAPPAN RAVICHANDRAN on February 19th, 2008 8:03 am

    I WANT TO SEE MY VILLAGE VANDIPERIYAR IN KERALA STATE, INDIA

  46. shakil abbasi on February 27th, 2008 3:47 am

    i want to look map of pakistan

  47. shakil abbasi on February 27th, 2008 3:49 am

    i want to look of pakistan

  48. guri on March 1st, 2008 1:09 am

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  49. Moayad on March 7th, 2008 5:42 pm

    hi to all, i wish to see my town, Amman
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  50. ravi on March 27th, 2008 12:26 am

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    I wanna see my city.DHAKA BANGLADESH

  54. Les on May 17th, 2008 1:34 am

    “Visited” the Taj Mahal in India using Google maps. Spectacular beauty clearly seen with a satbird’s eye view from the dizzy height of 700Km as seen from a geostatic orbit satellite over the Indian Ocean!
    From:
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    Not good to see as doesn`t show exact location of my house in Jaipur.Himanshu Singhal

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