Google Earth And The Hurricane
Asa Dotzler asks the question many may have been wondering during today’s, “moderately” difficult weather condition (you may have heard of Hurricane Katrina): “where’s the Google maps hack” that shows live weather updates?
Now, I haven’t seen any such implementation (and there really should be one), but my brother did tell me that he saw a lot of local news stations using Google Earth for their weather reports, with a prominent Google Earth logo in the corner of the screen. Google must be thrilled to be getting their logo on a number of newscasts. I’d be interested in finding out how many.
CNN (blech) was using Google Earth this morning, but it didn’t look very good. Very pixilated.
Glenn Letham has posted some Katrina-related images he created with Google Earth over at http://www.flickr.com/photos/gisuser/sets/839589/
Comment by Stu | August 29, 2005
My Google Earth Flickr.. just a day behind the storm..lol
http://flickr.com/photos/spunkz/38452541/
Comment by Joe Brooks | August 29, 2005
CNN World here in Germany has been using Google Earth a lot. They used it a lot for the Shuttle flight and landing a couple weeks ago.
Comment by joe | August 30, 2005
It seems to me that google earth would be breaking their necks to get pictures of the flooding in New Orleans and the sournding area, at least people would be able to look at their streets to see if they were flooded and damage if any. Heck its good business.
Comment by John | August 30, 2005
GIS, Maps and Katrina in the News
A monitoring team watched Katrina with GIS tracking software, overlaying her path on top of maps of BellSouth’s critical infrastructure to analyze who and where would be hardest hit.
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Trackback by All Points Blog | August 31, 2005
There is a .kml file in http://www.googleearthhacks.com/ that displays weather images as overlays in Google Earth. It links the images via internet so they are updated in regular intervals. Check it out. (you will need to register to the site (it’s free) to download any KML file, but it’s worth it, there’s a lot of neat stuff there.
Comment by Alex Cavazos | August 31, 2005