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Flooding in Queensland

topomatt — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:52:25 +0000

Here is a satellite image acquired January 7, 2011, showing the flooding at Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. The flooding from the Fitzroy River can be seen throughout the city and adjacent countryside. You can barely make out one of the runways at the airport as the rest of the airport is shown underwater.

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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

topomatt — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:20:00 +0000

**UPDATED 5/15/2010**

The Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded and sank on April 20, 2010 approximately 50 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana. The resulting oil spill is slowly making its way northward toward the Louisiana coastline.

This collection of Google Earth overlays contains the following data sets:

High resolution Satellite Imagery of the . . . → Read More: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Baja California-Mexico Earthquake Maps

topomatt — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:53:02 +0000

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurred at 3:40:40 p.m. (local time at the epicenter) on Sunday, 4 April 2010 in Baja California, approximately 75 km south of the Mexico-USA border (or about 100 miles east southeast of San Diego, California). The earthquake occurred at shallow depth (approximately 10 km) along the boundary zone between . . . → Read More: Baja California-Mexico Earthquake Maps

Chile Earthquake Maps

topomatt — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:22:42 +0000

On Saturday, February 27 at 6:34:14 UTC, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake occurred near Maule, Chile. News is just starting to come in so not sure how much damage there will be from this earthquake.

I will start working on a collection of map and earthquake data overlays for Google Earth. I will . . . → Read More: Chile Earthquake Maps

Zillow Neighborhoods

topomatt — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:00:17 +0000

Database of nearly 7,000 neighborhood boundaries for the largest cities in the United States created by Zillow.com.

This is my 3rd incarnation of this data set. This version does not require you to manually enable the state you wish to view. Instead, just navigate around the US and the colored boundaries will show up . . . → Read More: Zillow Neighborhoods

Haiti Earthquake Maps and Data

topomatt — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:35:42 +0000

On Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 4:53 PM, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Relief agencies and scientific agencies from all over the world have been compiling maps and other data to aid in relief efforts. Over the last several days I’ve been trying to help compile maps and other GIS . . . → Read More: Haiti Earthquake Maps and Data

Crime Scenes & Serial Killers

topomatt — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:16:29 +0000

This data collection show the locations of notorious crime scenes, locations related to serial killers (where they lived, where they were captured, etc), and the locations of death row prisons throughout the United States. Each placemark contains a snippet of information about the location, including photographs of the scene or criminal. Some of . . . → Read More: Crime Scenes & Serial Killers

North Korea Uncovered

topomatt — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:53:49 +0000

North Korea Uncovered is a product of the North Korean Economy Watch blog. The data set contains 1,000′s of placemarks showing the locations of various governmental and commercial areas in North Korea.

The locations are all nicely organized by the type of location and the data appears to be updated regularly.

. . . → Read More: North Korea Uncovered

Map the Fallen

topomatt — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:18:45 +0000

Map the Fallen is a project created by Sean at the Google Earth Outreach team. In short, this project displays information related to American and Coalition servicemen and women that have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I’d also like to take a moment to say thanks to all our . . . → Read More: Map the Fallen

Greensburg Kansas Tornado

topomatt — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:02:45 +0000

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

KML Content Created By: Google Access From: More Info: . . . → Read More: Greensburg Kansas Tornado

2007 Hurricane Katrina

topomatt — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:16:19 +0000

Update 11/2009

This archive of Hurricane Katrina data has been removed. The aerial photographs of New Orleans shortly after the flooding can now be found using the historical imagery in Google Earth. The MODIS satellite imagery of Katrina can still be found using the MODIS Satellite Gallery. Much of the other . . . → Read More: 2007 Hurricane Katrina

2007 California Wildfires

topomatt — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:33:35 +0000

The Southern California wildfires of October/November 2007 destroyed over 1,500 homes and over 500,000 acres. More information on the fire can be found at Wikipedia October 2007 California Wildfires.

This is an archive of various GIS data sets that were created during, and shortly after the fire and have been converted to . . . → Read More: 2007 California Wildfires