Google Earth now lets users view YouTube videos shot in a certain location
YouTube adds Google Earth geo-tagging
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12 Oct 2007, Tom Sanders in California , V3
Google has unveiled a new feature of Google Earth that allows users to view YouTube videos shot in a certain location.
The YouTube content is presented in a special layer on the satellite images. YouTube publishers have to tag their creations with a location marking for it to show up on Google Earth.
The overlay does not filter videos, causing a wide variety of content to show up. A video shot at Buckingham Palace, for instance, offered predictable images of a guard slipping.
But it also showed a video called Robo Violence, a stick-figure animation with no apparent link to the royal dwelling.
YouTube introduced its geo-tagging option earlier this year, allowing users to leave a push-in on a map to indicate where their video was recorded.
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Do you agree?
Alternatives
may I suggest 2 other alternatives:
1/ for more relevant video selection : http://www.VeniVidiWiki.eu is already placing videos from youtube, dailymotion, turnhere, google video ... on Google Maps, per categories
2/ with Google Earth 4.2, it is also possible to open .kmz files containing videos about specific topics.
As an example, here are the world capitals: http://www.venividiwiki.eu/kmz/Capitals-V1.0.kmz
Posted by Sylvie, 16 Oct 2007