Official Google Earth your city thread!

[symbolphoto]

Ok hear me out. I have a suggestion. A rather large one.

I was thinking how cool would it be if people from a certain city, or location, that have good knowledge of the area created a google earth map of that location/city with pushpins explaining the types of shots that can be had at that location? Would that be cool?

So we can just post in here, in the title box, City or location, and you post the map in that post. How cool would that be, if people did all major cities across the country and world! It would elimate the need for threads; "Coming to Phoenix, what to take pictures of??"

You can get google earth here;
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

It's extremely useful anyhow since you can spot locations for geographical/architechtural photography. I'll post the first one. Kmz is the file extension for google earth maps.

[symbolphoto]

My favorite places of Boston.
http://www.brendanstewart.net/bostonphotography.kmz

[Scottes]

I'm starting to convert my spots to Google Earth. Here's my spots near Boston: Boston Photo Spots (http://www.itsanadventure.com/postimages/Boston Photo Spots.kmz)

More to come later


Edit: Link works now.

[justin carpenter]

sounds like an awesome idea i will work on it

[PostShawn]

This is a good idea. I set one up on a car forum I am on using www.frappr.com. We have markers for the members and other parkers for locations of fun car things like race tracks and other common car gathering places.

I will work on some of my favorite spots in the Los Angeles area and upload them soon. I'm sure there are other SoCal folks who will add too.

[symbolphoto]

Ha, nobody posted forever in it, so i was starting to think maybe it wasn't such a hot idea. But it certainly has potential for out of towners.

[Greg_C]

Hey cool idea, here's just a small kmz file from a local bush walk I did a little while ago.

Brisbane Australia.
Karrawatha Forrest (www.steadyhands.net/googleearth/BushWalk.kmz)
Brisbane City (to come when I make the KMZ file)
Australia Zoo
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

[CarCapture]

That's a good idea.
Kind of links to something i've been doing already.
Trying to put a 'Location Map' link in the description for all the sample shots in
My Gallery (http://www.carcapture.co.uk/gallery/v/samples/104_0404.JPG.html)
Pity you can't link a GPS device into the camera for next generation EXif

[Scottes]

Google Earth KMZ file: New England Waterfalls (http://www.itsanadventure.com/postimages/New England Waterfalls.kmz) - 50+ waterfalls that are easily accessible.



If you're interested in waterfalls in New England, here's a couple sites dedicated to them:
New England Waterfalls (http://www.newenglandwaterfalls.com)
Waterfalls Of The Northeast (http://www.northeastwaterfalls.com)

And two books:
New England Waterfalls: A Guide to More Than 200 Cascades and Waterfalls (http://www.amazon.com/New-England-Waterfalls-Guide-Cascades/dp/0881505455/sr=1-1/qid=1160790432/ref=sr_1_1/102-5941455-3855353?ie=UTF8&s=books)
Waterfalls of the White Mountains: 30 Hikes to 100 Waterfalls (http://www.amazon.com/Waterfalls-White-Mountains-Hikes-100/dp/0881504645/sr=1-1/qid=1160790484/ref=sr_1_1/102-5941455-3855353?ie=UTF8&s=books)

[Scottes]

I updated my Boston Photo Spots above. 59 spots, mine & mumbles combined, and a few edited out. I've updated most with links to external sites.

Anyone know how to embed a photo inside a Google Earth location so the picture shows in the pop-up?

[Greg_C]

Anyone know how to embed a photo inside a Google Earth location so the picture shows in the pop-up?

Have you looked at my post above about Karrawatha Forrest? Check it out and see if this is what you are looking for, the place marks will bring up a thumbnail of the photo.

[Scottes]

Yes, that's exactly what I'm looking for.

[lakiluno]

I have a special KMZ installed that points out every coordinate on wikipedia and takes you to the wikipedia page when clicked. It slows google earth down incredibly :p

[Greg_C]

Yes, that's exactly what I'm looking for.
Scottes that was created with RoboGeo. (http://www.robogeo.com/home/) Not the only software around that will do this but it works for me, has a lot of features and an reasonable interface.

[Crypto]

I think this is a similar idea. I think I found this link on here.
http://www.outdoorphotoop.com/statictest.html

[Scottes]

I think this is a similar idea. I think I found this link on here.
http://www.outdoorphotoop.com/statictest.html
Yes, I had come across that site once before. It's very skimpy - I wish more people would send stuff in to him.

I once started a web site for New England, http://www.itsanadventure.com/psma, but that was too much work.

So far I've collected 400+ photo op locations in New England, currently stored in Microsoft Streets & Trips. I've made it a winter project to convert them to Google Earth and figure out a way to do a web site - hopefully with a simple forum.

[Scottes]

Scottes that was created with RoboGeo. (http://www.robogeo.com/home/) Not the only software around that will do this but it works for me, has a lot of features and an reasonable interface.
Well that software seems to answer a few questions that I have about working with Google Earth files. I'll be checking it out shortly.

Thanks!


Edit: Well, it won't do what I want after all. I'm working backwards from the way RoboGeo wants. That is, I already have location in Google Earth and want to add pictures. It wants to get the coordinates from pictures, and add them to Google Earth. Oh, well.