tirsdag den 11. november 2008

Globalis and the Google Earth Plug-in


Fantastisk at se nogen gøre data tilgængelig på en fælles platform som ALLE har adgang til ...
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Great to see somebody making data available on a common platform for ALL to use ...
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Globalis is an interactive world atlas developed by UN Association of Norway. The atlas contains a large collection of international statisticsworld maps (provided by GRID-Arendal), satellite imagery,country profiles and information about ongoing conflicts around the world. It is possible to do country comparsions (example 1example 2), country rankings, and statistical maps. The atlas is currently available in NorwegianSwedish and Danish.


We are going to make most of this information available as KML files. So far you can download various KMLs to Google Earth. We are not satisfied with this solution as the KML specification has limited capabilities of controlling the Google Earth interface, and the user has to switch between two applications. I'm therefore trying to utilise the new Google Earth Plug-in. [...]


Read more: http://blog.thematicmapping.org/2008/11/globalis-and-google-earth-plug-in.html

1 kommentar:

  1. When will Globalis be available in English? Your site is an excellent sourse of information, however, if it were available in English, a vast number of people could use it.

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