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PC World: 10 Amazing Google Earth Add-Ons

Posted by James Turnbull, Tuesday, 2nd September 2008

Last week, when we failed to post a new entry one day, we weren’t just sitting around barbecuing you know! No, in fact we were writing an article for PC World, the world’s largest monthly computer publication!

The article went live this morning and we think you might be interested in it – it’s called 10 Amazing Google Earth Add-Ons, and in it we detail 10 user-generated overlays, visualisations and data-feeds that in our infinite Google Earth-related wisdom we have deemed “most interesting”.

Anyway, we’ll be back onto islands later on today, but in the meantime, make sure you check out the article1 which features “a dizzying array of information in a new and imaginative graphical form”, including maps from centuries past, 3D paths of satellites in orbit, global warming brought to life and lots more.


  1. You could even Digg the article, if you’re really bored. 

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