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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.

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Premier League players origin View in Google Earth Modern football is very international: every season players move from one country to another and on the clubs payrolls appaer players from all over the world. This is especially so in the English Premier League, the competition with the richest clubs in the world. This content overlay shows the origin of the first team players of the 4 biggest clubs: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United.	AIDS prevelance rates View in Google Earth More and more international institutions are opening up there statistics databases and publish them online. Most of these statistics have a geographical component and Google Earth is a perfect tool to visualize these statistics.
The Belgian music festivals 2008 View in Google Earth A lot of users don't know that Google Earth can be used to travel through time. I used this capability to create a geocalendar of the Belgian music festivals that take place in the months of June, July and August 2008.	National Parks of Bolivia View in Google Earth Bolivia has one of the highest biodiversity in the world. One way to protect this biodiversity is the delimitation of protected areas and national parks. Bolivia has 60 protected areas and 21 National Parks. The National Parks cover 182.717 square kilometers and represent 16,6% of the national territory. This content overlay shows the location of the Bolivian National Parks and provides a description and a link to websites with more info for each Park.
GeoBlogivia: blogging in Google Earth View in Google Earth My personal blog (no longer updated) is called Blogivia (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.