Google Earth mashup
I’ve only recently begun exploring Google Earth (GE). The Google Gods haven’t yet blessed the pane in which we live, it’s still in low-res, but the panes around us are in magnificent hi-res detail. I can even see a few graves in the neighbouring Hillgrove Cemetery now.
I’ve also been reading about people creating “mashupsâ€? – the combining of information, maps in this case, from more than one source.
My first attempt at creating a mashup involved mixing the Bureau of Meteorology‘s (BoM) rain radar image for this area with Google Earth’s view of New England and surrounding area. My mashup updates the radar image every 10 minutes. Unfortunately, it doesn’t rain around here that much at this time of year so it might take a while to view the results at their glorious best.
One benefit of overlaying the rain radar image on GE is that the viewer can take advantage of the 3D and pan, tilt, and zoom features to look at the rain from every conceivable angle 
To view and manipulate my mashup, download the KML file, save it to disk, then double-click it (or “open� it directly from GE).
This is what you can expect, rain permitting:
[...] I previously wrote about my first attempt at a Google Earth (GE) “mashupâ€? where I’d overlaid a Bureau of Meteorology rain radar image over a panel from Google Earth. [...]
Google Earth mashup: rain radar overlays | The MacAlba
June 25, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Hi All Experts,
Does anyone use google earth images as ground image planes for use in aerial scenes. I know how to stitch them together but are there any tools or tricks to make sure that the images are at the same height, angle and such to make sure they stitch well. I know in the pro version you can get bigger images but im not going to pay for the pro version when i could stitch multiple images together…
Triston
November 29, 2006 at 3:46 am