Lecture and workshop week 15

In this workshop you will be preparing to create a dynamic overlay for GoogleEarth.

The key learning points are

• GoogleEarth is extended with user defined overlays, either static or dynamic
• the XML vocabulary is called kml
  
• a valid kml file needs very few elements to create a minimal file
• the file must have a Mime type of application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml
• there are geocoding services which will translate a place name to its latitude and longitude

Resources

• blog entry on Google Earth
• my wiki entries on Geocoding and Location
• slides
• worksheet
• simple PHP to kml script