Comments on: Google Earth Thematic Mapping Engine https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/07/01/google-earth-thematic-mapping-engine-2/ Data, Cities, IoT, Writing, Music and Making Things Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Søren Johannessen https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/07/01/google-earth-thematic-mapping-engine-2/#comment-2596 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:51:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1666#comment-2596 Yes this is a cool tool – and somewhere at Bjørn’s blog he also has promised in near future to release the tool as open source.

So for example you can for a local country and if you have the municipalities(zip codes etc) borders then you can import data to compare each municipalities etc. Looking forward to see Bjørn’s releasing it.

BTW I have also done a danish demo with TME, which runs in the Google Earth API
http://www.microformats.dk/kort/tme/fnstat.html
(sory only Windows at the moment). This shows (Life expectancy at birth 2005) and I have been using 4 different ways to show the data —
Click/unclick the “checkbox”es below map to change view

]]> By: Rich Treves https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/07/01/google-earth-thematic-mapping-engine-2/#comment-2595 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:12:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1666#comment-2595 The GE Thematic Engine is powerful but has caused a discussion about the value of 3D mapping, for a summary see:

http://googleearthdesign.blogspot.com/2008/06/3d-discussion-simple-is-good.html

Rich

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