Google Earth  Scientific and Historical Visualization

 

These require Google Earth.  I am currently working to create these files "automatically" with MICRODEM from GIS databases.   This is active research, and any use of trade names is for descriptive purposes only.

Battle of Big Hole (7th Infantry, 1877)

SOISSONS (World War I) Virtual Staff Ride Prototypes--Military History using historic maps, done in partnership with the Marshall Foundation

Map Atlas, World War II Western Front

History of Mapping, White Mountains, CA/NV

Geologic Maps

 

Problems with demos (especially using Internet Explorer)?

 When you click on one of these demonstrations, you should get this window. You want to Open with Google Earth.  This happens reliably with FireFox.

Note the option to "Do this automatically for now on", which would make loading files like this faster, although it doesn't seem to deliver on that promise as the browser stills asks about it.

 

Some versions of Internet Explorer have a feature which makes this process easier for you.  They recognize that the KMZ file is really a ZIP file, and don't care that the KMZ file extension is registered to Google Earth.  So they rename it for you and won't let it open automatically in Google Earth.

If this happens, save the file to disk and try to give it back a KMZ extension. Then double click on the file in Windows Explorer, and hopefully Google Earth will open it.

http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/earth/#ie_users has another set of directions on how to fully benefit from this feature.

Kind of makes you glad you're not using a different browser, doesn't it?  Three steps beats single click any day.
Another solution is to cut the URL and paste it into the File Name edit box in the File Open dialog of Google Earth, and bypass Internet Explorer entirely.

 

 

last revised 2/18/2008