July 9th, 2007
Come watch my Google Earth- YouTube mashup
I use Google Earth not so much for directions, but to zoom in on the places I’ve lived as well as where various loves, friends and family members have dwelled.
Other times, I work with Google Earth to “fly” between origination points and destination points. Kind of like taking a virtual vacation. But instead of taking the vacation in my mind, well, we now have Google Earth.
Just a little while ago, I took the “fly” features of Google Earth a step further. I simulated a trip via Google Earth, video screencapped it with SnagIt’s video capture feature, and then uploaded the clip I created to Google-owned YouTube.
Where from and to?
If you click the arrow in the YouTube video I embedded in this post, you will find yourself “flying” from the Post Office in Waleska, Georgia (north of Atlanta) to the P.O. in the beautiful oceanfront town of Point Arena, California.
I chose these geographical points after remembering the year before I moved from Georgia out west. In the summer of 1996, I had just come back from a vacation in and near Point Arena, and found myself in Waleska. And when I went to Waleska- a college town with virtually nothing in common with Point Arena- I started flashing back to Point Arena and how I so wanted to be there that Saturday morn.
And here we are, 11 years later.
So watch if you would like. The actual “flight” commences about 10 seconds into the video.
This isn’t rocket science, or even computer science. Woot, you can do your own Google Earth-YouTube mashup as well!
Russell Shaw is an enterprise computing journalist, analyst and author based in Portland, Oregon. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
