Musicians in Google Earth
Wow, looks like soon there will be more and more options of layers in the Google Earth interface. I just found out today that someone has started a project to plot the locations of the birthplaces of all the major musicians throughout history on Google Earth. The way this would work is you would click on the placemark and you’d get info about that musician, a bio and even be able to listen to a bit of their music. I think that is unbelievably cool. The project has just gotten started but it’s generated a lot of interest and attention. I predict this will inspire others to create other plugins for similar types of information…like famous sports personalities, or artists. It really opens up a whole new realm of possibilities.
The person who is working on/heading this project is a member of the Google Earth community named Biggles99 and here’s the link to the full article. Check it out for yourself. It’s awesome!
Biggles99, if you’re taking requests, I’d like the Trip Hop genre marked prominently in Bristol, England with all the amazing musicians like Morcheeba, Massive Attack and Portishead noted. Actually I’m just going to write to you separately to see if I can help. But meanwhile, thanks so much for coming up with such a creative application for Google Earth!
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