Archive for August, 2008
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008This week, I’ve been visiting some other Google Earth blogs to see what our fellow virtual trippers have been up to.
Hurricane Tracking
Last week, I wrote about how you can watch the weather in Google Earth. Well, how about watching a hurricane? Frank has written “Track Hurricane Gustav in Google Earth” on the Google Earth Blog [...]
Hungary and Capital city Budapest.
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Hi this is Mark here, I have been doing these blogs for two to three months now and I really enjoy doing them as I keep saying, but now and again I like to try something different. This time rather having me write about Hungary, I am giving you the opportunity to find out about [...]
A quiet giant within North America, Mexico
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Mexico is one of the North-American countries, it lye’s partly in the lower part of Northern America and in some of Central-America, bordering the United States of America and to the south of the country Belize and Guatemala. It is 1,972,545 square kilometers or 761,604 square miles. With extensive coastlines on the Atlantic and [...]
Live Weather Reports in Google Earth
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Here’s a great feature of Google Earth I didn’t know about. Under “Layers” in the sidebar, there’s an option for Weather. Enabling that option covers the globe in clouds and little thermometers that show you what the weather is like right now!
Clouds stealthily avoid the Beijing Olympics
A rainy weekend in Japan
Sizzling temperatures in Saudi Arabia
The [...]
One of Europe’s most powerful nation’s Germany!
Friday, August 22nd, 2008Germany is a large country in central Europe, it is neighboured by Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands to the west, you have the Czech Republic and Poland to the east and to the south Austria and Switzerland and to the north Denmark. Standing tall and strong it is a large country it is 357,022 [...]
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Mark Ramsay, globetrotting from an armchair in England.
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