Google Earth is a very neat tool for cartographers and the everyday person. You can visit a place without visiting a place, you can help people who are thousands of miles away. You can collect information and use it to curator your own map library. This technology is making the world smaller.
I used a dot map from my previous assignment in class. By converting my map of South Florida into a KML file I was able to layer it on top of Google Earth and view it on the globe. Placing statistical information on a globe can provide individual with additional understanding for that specific area. It also allows Google to provide the additional information you might not have like the names of all of the cities located in the area.
With the map that I made I also created a tour of South Florida
Map like this one could be used by tourists visiting from France. Its a lot less likely they will get lost if they know what the buildings look like and the street names.
South Florida Google Earth Tour
You can also view tours made by other people.
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