Category Archives: google earth

Documenting Drought (Beyond Reasonable Drought)

By shoaib | Published: 2008/09/14
An eye on the drought, 2007 Originally uploaded by Old Parliament House Today while riding by bike around Canberra I stopped over at the old parliament house to catchup with a friend. I was blown away by a stunning exhibition called “Beyond Reasonable Drought”. The exhibition documents in photos the effects of drought on the people, livestock [...]
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Google Earth on Rails

By editor | Published: 2008/01/09
There is a little post on getting Google Earth and Rails apps talking to each other at: GE-Rails. There is even a hint on using merb instead or Rails
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Mapserver output as KML

By shoaib | Published: 2007/09/23
Alessandro Pasotti has authored a utility to output mapserver layers as KML for display on Google Earth. This is written in PHP mapscript so will require mapscript to be installed with your standard Mapserver installation. Check it out here. Although its a useful tool, it would be nice to have kml support in mapserver (C++) out [...]
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