View the moon and planets too on Google Earth
Alan Noble wrote The Art of “Goography” using Google to teach Geography for Victorian Geography teachers but its links to other “how to” instructions make it a good starting point to anyone getting into Google mashups
Outage Mashup of customer data, network and Google map
Sydney electricity supplier, Energy Australia is using Mashups for media communications, senior management briefings and engineering collaboration. They are bringing GIS into the limelight by delivering information in a quick and user friendly way. Craig Hersant and Daniel Hansen are speaking at the GITA conference in their paper “Using GIS to accelerate business performance†and Daniel will lead a session in the Mashups workshop to show how it is done. More
They paint a picture on a Google canvas of an outage situation, a proposed network change or critical infrastructure. It is combined with output from GIS, customer service and outage management systems. The possibilities are endless.
Staff walk senior management through a scenario using the familiar backdrop of a Google map, switching easily into Google Earth 3D imagery or Streetview to clarify a question.