Short news: Morocco, Oracle, Megalithic portal, Geody, Loc.alize.us
- This is the second mention in blogs, but I haven't seen it confirmed by a news service: Apparently, Google Earth's servers are inaccessible in Morocco. (Either that or somebody had trouble connecting and before you know it, a meme is born.) Can anybody in Morocco confirm or deny this story?
- Oracle publishes a detailed technical article by mappinghacks.com's Rich Gibson on how to Build a Google Earth Interface on Oracle Database XE. The examples use PHP. (Via Arun's Blog)
- Le Blogue du LFG finds another remarkable KML resource: Methalithic portal's online database of over 15,000 prehistoric monuments is now online.
For my own reference, now:
- James Fee is right. Loc.alize.us's Flickr geotagging bookmarklet is the easiest way to georeference one's photos. Once they're in there, view them in Google Earth thus.
- Geody is a very interesting geosearch portal. Unique feature: Look up stuff on the moon and other planets. back on Earth, search results come linked to Google Earth, NASA World Wind, etc...
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Beware of the Megalithic Portal Google Map download. It does not work and also infected my laptop with a virus.
Posted by: Derek Johnson at 13:26 UTC, August 31, 2006
THe current version of it does seem to generate a parsing error in Google Earth 3, but there is no virus in that file, just markup -- I checked, even though there is no known exploit using KMZ files with Google Earth. So the virus on your laptop got there some other way, I'm afraid. Good luck.
Posted by: Stefan at 13:57 UTC, August 31, 2006
Hello, there is no virus in the file
It doesn't work with G.E. version 3.
This is due to it having a lot of 'foreign' characters in the European site names.
Google have changed the way these are handled between 3 and 4 so it can't made compatible with both. (as far as I know)
Posted by: Andy B at 9:36 UTC, July 24, 2007
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