I just got back from vacation. The past two weeks I’ve been visiting Barcelona, my parents in France, Girona, Figueres, Lleida and Zaragoza. Despite having a car for only eight days, I still managed to drive 1650km. I updated my placemarks in Google Earth and regenerated my places website where you can find a complete [...]
Also tagged googleA feature in Google Earth I was not aware of is the ability to add layers from external services. One such service is placeopedia that provides placemarks with a name and a link to the relevant wikipedia article.
How does it work? Just open this link http://www.placeopedia.com/cgi-bin/kml.cgi/searchwithin.kml. It will open up in Google earth showing the [...]
This morning I had some more fun marking locations in Google Earth. I documented more holidays. Then I managed to lose all my additions by crashing google earth. It reset to the version I saved last evening. It turns out, it doesn’t actually save anything until you exit properly. :-(.
Next time, I’ll be saving and [...]
A nice feature in Google Earth is that you can export your placemarks as a kmz file. This is just a zipfile with a .kml file inside. This file in turn is just a xml format that Google uses to list your placemarks.
I spent some time creating a nice xsl file with which you can [...]
A few months ago I posted a set of placemarks with all the places where I ever lived marked in Google Earth. Last week, Google updated the imagery for the entire Netherlands so I had to revisit those places and found that in a few cases some adjustments were needed. Most of the places are [...]
Also tagged googleI wasted some time in Google earth creating some placemarks of all the places I ever lived: Places where I lived
Just click on it and it should open up the locations in google earth. You need to have Google earth installed of course.
I did not take it myself but it gives a good overview of where I live (click for fullsize photo):
As you can see, I live quite close to where I work. It’s about a 15 minute walk. The historical center with the south and north harbor is a little further (top right).
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