Frank Taylor (Google Earth Blog)

Google Earth provides a rich platform for multimedia and imagery. Learn how to make the platform your own.Google Earth provides a visualization platform for sharing geospatial information that is both deep with data and imagery, but also rich in terms of functionality. The addition of the new Google Earth 5 Tour functionality, and the GE 5 plugin, makes it possible to develop new Google Earth-enabled web sites. Google Earth can be used to develop multimedia applications for GIS, games, simulations, social networking, business, education, and more. This session will demonstrate cutting edge applications, discuss the availability of developer resources, and will even describe tools available to use the platform without coding.

Audience: Targeted for anyone interested in Google Earth. The session will not focus on coding, but will discuss developer resourc

The Google 3D Warehouse is continuing to evolve. They now have an great way of sharing cool 3D models called “Collections”.

Anyone can set up a collection and point to various 3D models already in the warehouse. And, they can rate and comment on the ones they like.

There is an excellent collection of 3D structures, put together by someone called ’scarpimp’, which are UNESCO Cultural Heritage sites. Places like the Taj Majal or the Himeji Castle and 50 other UNESCO sites are already in the collection.

Many of these buildings are already built in to the 3D Buildings layer of Google Earth. Some, like the Himeji Caslte seen in the screenshot are not well optimized, so they aren’t in the 3D Buildings layer. You can find the locations of these UNESCO sites more quickly by just viewing the 3D Warehouse collection. This collection may inspire 3D modelers to create more of the other 500 or so UNESCO sites.

Earth Model.