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Maps are becoming ever more present on the internet and Google Earth is the exponent of the emerging geoweb. Its free availability, large user base and lots of features and capabilities make it an excellent tool for a wide range of applications. The list of sectors already using and benfiting from Google Earth is long: education, tourism, marketing, photography, government, non profit, ...

Almost any data with a geospatial dimension can be visualized in Google Earth. Merkador offers advice and support on gathering, preparing, layouting and publishing your data in Google Earth. Merkador can also help you to integrate geodata and maps in your website and to put the web 2.0 to work to meet your goals.

Check out the video introduction and the gallery below to see some of examples of how Google Earth can be used to visualize different types of data.

Gallery

National Geographic Photography Since not all users are familiar with the posibilities of the Google Earth user interface, I wanted to create some content with very minimalistic controls. I love travelling, strange places and photography, so I ended up geolocating images from National Geographic Photography.	The Belgian music festivals 2009 Last year Merkador published the geocalendar of the Belgian music festivals 2008. With the start of the new festival season, a version for 2009 was due.
GeoBlogivia: blogging in Google Earth My personal blog is called Blogivia and you'll find it at www.saarmaart.be (in Dutch). A lot of the posts on Blogivia are linked to a specific location en that's why I decided to turn Blogivia into a geoblog.	Geo Fogonazos Fogonazos is a very good, bilingual (spanish-english) blog about amazing things in the world. A lot of the articles are linked to a geographic location and I thought it would interesting to visualize these locations on a map.