Table of Resources for Google Earth
Google Earth Files |
Google Doc Files | Links |
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Spreadsheet Mapper |
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Sample Point (Sierra Hall) .kmz file - opens in Google Earth |
Google Earth placemarker description template (.doc file with .html template) |
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Link to Google Spreadsheet (used in Geography 107 to create Wiki-Map of students favorite restaurants) |
Google Earth placemarker description template (Adobe .pdf format with instructions for you to view) |
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Sample Lines (walk to lunch) (commute) |
A Google Docs based Geocoding Formula (will turn addresses into lat/long coordinates) |
Google Earth placemarker description template (.jpeg picture format with instructions for you to view) |
Link to "track" of hike at Leo Carillo State Park from GPS coordinates; can be uploaded into Google Earth |
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Overlay Map of California Indian Tribes |
Historical Landmarks in Los Angeles County |
Previous class labs:
Link to a Google Earth exercise in which students use multiple layers to deduce the best location in Los Angeles for health science instruction.
Link to a class project using Google Earth/Maps and the Spreadsheet Mapper (above) to create a map-based directory of resources of folks with autism in the Inland Empire
. The leading GIS software is ESRI (for Environmental Systems Research Institute). Their flagship product is called ArcMap. They have come late to the world of online mapping, but their products have some advantages (and some disadvantages) compared to Google Earth. These tools have much greater support and higher-end capabilities, but they are less widely known than Google Earth/maps. The ESRI products will open .kmz (Google) files and display them. They will also open and display files from ArcMap (the desktop mapping application) and even some other files, like .csv.
There are a number of valuable shared files, produced by government agencies and academic sources through ESRI online.
The ESRI products do not have the same easy-to-use 3D capabilities that can be useful in Google Earth.
ESRI features two similar web mapping tools ArcGIS.com Viewer and ArcGIS Explorer Online.
Table of Resources for ArcMap and Arc Explorer
ESRI Products |
ESRI Files | Links |
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| Basic Introduction Video | Fault Line Map | .kmz for all notable infrastructure and quake history for Riverside County |
| ArcGIS Online (free accounts available) |
Shake Map for Palm Springs Region (.kml file) |
.kmz for Potential Ground Velocity in 7.8 Scenario |
| Radio Stations near Banning Pass Zipped Files for ESRI products |
.kmz for Potential Ground Accerlation in a 7.8 Scenario | |
| Arc GIS Explorer (Free Google Earth-like desktop application) |
.kmz for potential wind energy in Riversided County | |
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Other download sites:
US Census Bureau: Tiger Files - A HUGE resource for map files regarding, many, many topics.
USGS Shake Maps (North Palm Springs, 1986)
OpenSHA : Seismic Hazard Mapping Applications
