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Il Foto GeoTagging associa a una foto precise informazioni sul suo punto di ripresa sulla terra tramite coordinate geografiche, in modo da poterle facilmente organizzare, ricercare e visualizzare geograficamente su mappe e sistemi cartografici digitali…

By now most of you have heard that another terrible natural disaster occurred near Sichuan, China last week. It is feared 50,000 people may have lost their lives. There have been a number of Google Earth visualizations created to help inform the public about the location of the quake and the effects. Here’s a brief list of some of the better KML files I’ve seen:

These descriptive balloons are a fantastic way of communicating information to your users, and can include HTML, text, images, videos, hyperlinks, and pretty much anything else that you would like to portray to users. Because of the diversity of content that can be included in a description balloon, they tend to make excellent teaching tools, and have been used as such by National Geographic, Greenpeace, Global Heritage Fund, Earthwatch, and many others.