Google Earth Library

Historic US State Boundaries

July 9th, 2009 No comments

This set of files shows the configuration of United States and Territories every 10 years from 1790 to 1920. You can watch the United States start out with the 13 original States (actually I think it was 14 by 1790) and expand westward to the Pacific. I believe the only thing to change after 1920 was Alaska and Hawaii being changed from Territories to States, which is why I stopped at 1920.

The original shapefile data was obtained from the National Historical Geographic Information System. I simplified the polygons to allow them to display in Google Earth.

Each decade is an approximately 1 to 1.5 megabyte file that will take a minute or so to download and be processed by Google Earth, depending on the speed of your Internet connection and computer.

Historic United States Boundaries

Credits

Google Earth Library

National Historical Geographic Information System

World Country Borders

May 17th, 2009 5 comments

Colored polygons of of each country in the world with links to the applicable CIA World Factbook page. Click on a country see a pop up a balloon with a picture of that country’s flag and a link to the country’s CIA World Factbook page. You can also enable the locations of all the country capitals.

I created this by “borrowing” elements from previous work done by Valery35 (Country Names), mcshea98 (Country Polygons), and Filipumme (World Capitals) at the Google Earth Community, so most of the credit goes to them.

World Country Borders

Credits

Valery35 at Google Earth Community
mcshea98 at Google Earth Community
Filipumme at Google Earth Community

US Statehood Time Animation

February 5th, 2008 No comments

Time animation showing the US States as they are added to the Union. Select the file, and click on the play button at the top. It may take a few seconds to load.