Google Earth for Humanities

Here’s a recap of the Thursday (Thu, May 14th, Rosenwald 405, 12-1:30pm) presentation on Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/) and Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/). Google Earth is a powerful yet simple to use mapping and visualization tool. For this presentation, we focused on advanced features of Google Earth. Several interesting humanities related projects utilizing Google Earth were showcased, including ‘Ancient Rome’, ‘Las Vegas Growth’, ‘Rumsey Historical Maps’ and ‘Historical Imagery’.

Media

The presentation was recorded using Podcast Producer. You can view the recording now in Quick Time player. This and future Tech Talks can be subscribed to using iTunes or another RSS reader.

Links

• My previous blog post on this subject.
• Google Earth itself
• Satellite imagery of the growth of Las Vegas
• A gallery of KML files that can be loaded into Google Earth
• The newest and most exciting feature: Time Slider
• Rumsey Historical Maps. Note that this actually is built into Google Earth. It can be found in the “Gallery” list in the “Layers” panel.
• Also see Ogle Earth, a blog that “documents how Google Earth and other neogeographical tools are affecting geopolitics.”