Flash Earth and Geohacks...Who knew? Not me.

Just happened upon a sweet and simple geobrowser called Flash Earth...very smooth and easy to understand. Added bonus for me is that it links to high-res images of my favorite field area that are available only in Yahoo and Bing Maps:

 

Seems my pals at Google still just don't care about SE Oregon. Anyway, I found the site by perusing the details in an exif header in one of my geotagged photos. Was checking that out in Irfan View, a program I was aware of but hadn't tried yet. Turns out, it is well worth a look:

 

 

Which led me to the GeoHack wiki:

 

 

The internets are amazing, no? Totally cool.

 

 

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San Diego State University geology-themed kml files

The Department of Geological Sciences at SDSU is doing a major service for the geological community by providing some excellent geology-themed kml files. The word needs to spread.Go to their site and look for your favorite topic. Who couldn't like this stuff?

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/localgeology/getour.html

There are an array of useful geology images in addtion to some other, practical datasets. For example, the link below is to a Google Earth file showing the extent, name, and index number of every 7.5 topographic quad in the US. It can be bulky if you leave all of the data turned on, but is useful nonetheless.

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/localgeology/gekmz/maps_overlays/drg_dem_index/24k.kmz

 

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