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By Anosh Sethna Geospatial data was once a foreign term to the average consumer, but today Google Earth has resulted in the rapid growth of geospatial data as a factor in the everyday household. Google Earth uses high resolution satellite photography to create a highly user friendly virtual globe that can be used by anyone . . . → Read More: Democratization of Geospatial Data: Putting the Public in Control When, in 1994, a group of computer graphics professionals developed the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), a necessity for sophisticated programming skills overshadowed its potential for greatness. Since then, the emergence of virtual globes such as Google Earth has democratized, that is to say has made easily accessible and applicable to the average citizen, this . . . → Read More: Democratization of Geographic Information: (Potentially) Shaping our World By: Kiron Lebeck Reading of genocide, torture, and indiscriminate murder leaves one with a sad image that is soon forgotten, but actually seeing pictures of people affected by these atrocities leaves a permanent imprint in one’s mind. While this is an extreme circumstance, this kind of visual data has been made widely available through the . . . → Read More: Democratization: Power and Responsibility by: John J. Warnell This Banner links to their homepage. The Elders: Every Human has Rights is a layer within Google Earth that can be found under the Global Awareness subsection in the layers menu. “Every Human Has Rights,” the campaign to reintroduce the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to millions of people around the . . . → Read More: The Elders: Every Human Has Rights [The World Is Witness logo, linked to their homepage] By Chris James The Google Earth layer application “USHMM: World Is Witness” is a data/blog layer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in conjunction with Google. The layer allows users to view information about genocide, inhumane acts, and holocausts in countries that do not . . . → Read More: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: World Is Witness By: Caroline Rodriguez Google Earth has been applied to many different aspects of education and one specific application that has been proven to be effective is bringing to life the vivacity of the ocean. Several years ago, the launch of the Explore the Ocean layer in Google Earth “provided an opportunity to change . . . → Read More: Explore the Ocean Layer By: Eric Renkor Logo of the UNDP
At the turn of the millennium the world’s leaders gathered together to form the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), a list of goals to be completed by the year 2015. These eight goals, including halting extreme poverty, providing universal education, and . . . → Read More: UNDP: Millennium Development Goals Layer By Veronika Rodriguez The WaterAid layer in Google Earth is an application developed by Google Earth and the international non-governmental organization, WaterAid. WaterAid is an organization created in 1981 that seeks to improve access to “safe water, hygiene and sanitation” in the poorest communities of the world by working with local partners and influencing decision . . . → Read More: The WaterAid Layer By Christopher Chen The State of the Ocean layer, is in fact composed of many different sub-layers, each of which has been produced by a different company. Ocean Observations This is the first sub-layer listed under the State of the Ocean layer and it is by the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). The NDBC is . . . → Read More: State of the Ocean Layer By Caroline Rodriguez Greenpeace is an organization that uses non-violent confrontation to raise awareness to the public about environmental issues. The international organization fights to save the planet from any type of environmental destruction (http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/about). The organization has similar goals for the Google Earth layer. This layer was created to educate the public about environmental . . . → Read More: Greenpeace Layer |
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