Google Earth Political Overlay
I’ve been playing with Google Earth for the past two days and I have to say that I’m very impressed.
Thanks to the KML/KMZ overlays it can provide much more useful information than one might initially think.
Some of the high resolution imagery for interesting points, such as the Nepal-Tibet border crossing, is just outstanding.
However, so far one of the most useful overlays I’ve found (actually Vlad found it for me) is a political overlay that shows different countries in different colour. This may sound basic, but when you’re interested in borders and lots of different countries it is absolutely essential. If you’re interested follow this link and use the “View in Google Earth” link (Google Earth is obviously required).
Now if only there were an overlay which told me which page of my World Atlas to turn to for some hard-copy cartography!
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