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[Free Geography Tools] Google Earth Ground Overlays With GIF Transparency: Note: Google Earth sometimes has problems displaying large GIF overlays; if your overlay doesn’t work, try re-sizing it.
[Google Earth Library] SRTM KML Project: The file will overlay a shaded relief map of the Earth based on elevation data from the Space Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). As a bonus, it will also overlay the USGS Topographic Map data available from TerraServer.
[The Trail Tree Blog] Don’s Report:: The Mountain Stewards have formed a partnership with Wild South and Southeastern Archaeological Institute (SAI), two other nonprofit organizations to map the Indian trails of the Cherokee Nation in the Southeastern US. A resolution was enthusiastically endorsed by the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians (EBCI) Tribal Council on 7 February for this project.
[Comments for navigadget] Comment on TomTom GO 920T vs Garmin Nuvi 770 by Infama: TOMTOM Battery life is horrible lasts only about an hour, The device has shut down 5 times now indicating a low battery right after I charged it, the device keep popping off the Windows or dash because the Vehicle suction cup mount falls off, after using the phone to dial in for Weather the tomtom will not connect up to your phone via the Bluetooth connection you manually have to reattach it, I downloaded a new North America map and it will not fit onto the device without purchasing at least 2 gig of removable memory, When attempting to go to an address that has characters in the address other than 123 you were unable to enter them IE “1N141” Will not let you enter the “N”, To setup the dial in for the Cellular for weather and traffic neither the carrier nor tomtom support the config. WTF.
[Longdistancerider] Maps and GPS: I then took the overlay that Johnathan Ley did for the Google Earth and traced his overlay route onto the New Mexico recreational map I had (1:160000). It was not an easy chore, and I found that I could follow quite a few roads in New .
[flashda] Creating your own custom overlays: I just found a great tutorial on how to create custom maps and layers for use in Google Earth. There is this program called Global Mapper and it can do some neat things like download topo maps, aerial photos, elevation data directly ”¦ .
[The Trail Tree Blog] map mania”¦: The coordinate files from Google Earth can be translated into files that can be imported into the Proprietary Topographic mapping programs that communicate with our GPS devices. Here it is in DeLorme Topo:
[Spudalicious] USGS Topo Overlay for Google Earth: Every time I go looking for a USGS overlay for Google Earth, it takes me forever to find the dang thing. So, I’m keeping it here for a while so I don’t loose it again.
[Map] United States Maps: Historical Atlas of the United States Derek Hayes University0520250362 Charts of War The Maps and Charts that have Informed and Illustrated Maps of War John Blake Conway1844860310 THE FASCINATION OF MAPS is fully displayed in these
[The Map Room: Map Questions] Question: Topo Maps in Google Earth?: There's also some material on acquiring topo map raster images to use in Google Earth: this post on Ogle Earth points to a few sources; this post on Google Earth Blog points to a method of creating image overlays.
[Ron Schott's Geology Home Companion Blog] Geology Blogging: I think word Doc was describing (”the kind of hill that gets squeezed upwards like a mudpie between the uneven walls of a moving fault”) is technically called a “pop-up” (John McPhee loves that sort of geological technical terminology), though I’m not sure whether it applies to this particular hill, strictly speaking.
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