Desultory Thoughts

I came across a blog [Lifehacker.com] tonight that posted an article that clued me into yet another reason why I love Google Earth!

I love maps and I’m not afraid to admit it. I once made fun of a guy in my MTC District for saying that he loved maps, and now I feel really bad about it. (That was obviously before I discovered my own love of maps. It does sound geeky, you have to admit.)

Ever since Google released Google Earth, I’ve been a huge fan of finding new ways to have fun with it, from creating my own map overlays for mountain bike trails that I ride (download my Goosebury Mesa overlay [kmz file for Google Earth], Southern Utah), to using it to scope out and map the networks in my neighborhood (commonly known as wardriving), now I can track my parents flight from Houston to Salt Lake in 3D with the help of Google Earth and a new feature on Aroseek’s website [aeroseek.com]. This new tool allows you to download a kmz that opens in Google Earth and then updates the flight path of the flight that you are tracking once per minute.

I may have to add a “Map” category if I keep blogging about maps and stuff!