Under Historic Maps Category in the GE Library Browser:

Google Earth BBS Discussion:

Historical T-Sheets

T-Sheets are historic shoreline maps that were created in the early 1900s for many major waterways of the United States. The T-Sheets contain a lot of historical information such as locations of buildings, detailed descriptions of shorelines, etc. I have found them for several Hawaiian Islands, Puget Sound, and the Everglades. This first installment covers the Hawaiian Islands of Maui and Oahu and includes about 140 maps. I will try to add other areas as I have time.

Special Instructions

Select the radio button next to the year you wish to view. Zoom in to see the maps in more detail.

Original Data From:

University of Hawaii (Oahu)

University of Hawaii (Maui)

KML Content Created By:

Matt Fox

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Under Weather Category in the GE Library Browser:

Weather Bonk

Great collection of weather data including current observations, wind barbs, severe weather alerts, webcams, and radar overlays. There is a version for Fahrenheit and Celcius.

Original Data and KML Content By:

Weather Bonk

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Under Environment Category in the GE Library Browser:

Google Earth BBS Discussion:

USGS Streamflow Gages

Real time stream monitoring gauge data throughout the United States with data provided by the USGS. Simply click on a placemark to bring up data for that location.

Original KML Content By:

Aquaman713

Original Data From:

USGS

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Under Placemark Collections Category in the GE Library Browser:

Flickr Photos

A couple of different methods of viewing nearby georeferenced Flickr photographs in Google Earth.

• The first one was created by Metal Toad Media and will show small red dots at each photo location. Click on the red dot to see the photograph.
• The second one was created by Frank and shows a small thumbnail of each photograph.

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Under Environment Category in the GE Library Browser:

Google Earth BBS Discussion:

Global Population Density

Population density map of the world. I think the original data is from the European Space Agency.

Original KML Content By:

James Macgill

Original Data From:

European Space Agency

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Under Other Category in the GE Library Browser:

Google Earth BBS Discussion:

Demis World Map

The Demis Wold Map will overlay a map on to Google Earth that increases in detail as you zoom in. The map appear to have highway-level detail for much of the world. I believe Demis offers other versions of this map with more detail at their website.

Original Data From:

Demis

KML Content Created By:

James Macgill

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Under News and World Events Category in the GE Library Browser:

Google Earth BBS Discussion:

Greensburg Kansas Imagery

Before and after imagery showing the destruction in Greensburg, Kansas from an F5 tornado that struck the town on May 4, 2007.

Original Data and KML Content By:

Google

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Under Placemark Collections Category in the GE Library Browser:

Google Earth BBS Discussion:

Geoname.org Network Links

The GeoNames geographical database contains over eight million geographical names located throughout the world. The database includes the locations of such things as Populated Places, Parks, Churches, Shopping Center, Beaches, etc.

Special Instructions

This is a network link that updates when you stop moving the view around. It make take a few seconds to refresh the data when you stop.

Original Data and KML Content By:

EriKNson

http://www.geonames.org/

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Under Placemark Collections Category in the GE Library Browser:

Google Earth BBS Discussion:

Vietnam Bombing Data

Bomb data showing the locations and other specific information such as aircraft type and target type for 1,000s of bombs dropped by the US Air Force in Indochina during the Vietnam War 1965-1975.

Special Instructions

These are very large datasets so only load one at a time, and be patient while they load.

Original Data and KML Content By:

Landmine_Mapper

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Under Placemark Collections Category in the GE Library Browser:

Google Earth BBS Discussion:

UK Webcams

Webcams viewable in Google Earth from all over the United Kingdom. Just click on a location to see the current web cam image.

Original Data and KML Content By:

Weatherman22 (Stuart)

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