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.

Normandy Historical GIS

• Overview Good demonstration for combining overlays into smart layers, and linking to other material.

US in World War I France

• Student project in progress

Battle of Big Hole (7th Infantry, 1877)

• Integrated demonstration (246 KB)  Good demonstration for combining overlays into smart layers, and linking to other material.

Student GIS Projects

• War of 1812, Washington DC and vicinity (123 MB)  (Updated)
• Antietam morning events--1862 (69 MB) (12 MB version, lacks all the scanned maps, but shows the animation)
• Battle of the Bulge--1944 (94 MB) (8 MB version, lacks all the scanned daily situation maps, but shows the animation)
• Dien Bien Phu--1953-1954 (4 MB)

History of Mapping, White Mountains, CA/NV

• Wheeler Survey Map 57, 1871  (54 MB)
• USGS Map, 1917 (45 MB)
• USGS 1:100K map, 1988 (3 MB)

• White-Inyo Mountains, California (8 MB) USGS quads by Clem Nelson

last revised 6/5/2009