Google Earth layer

Just a quick note to let you know about a fantastic new Google Earth layer based on London: A Life in Maps that a colleague in our web team has put together. You can download about 10 maps from the exhibition & view them as image overlays in Google Earth

Comments

[Joc Triglav]

Dear Peter,

are you interested to publish an article on this London map exhibition for GeoInformatics magazine?If so, and I hope so, please contact me!

[jifang]

i want to know something about you map exhibition.How can i do ,thanks.
from a college student of China

[Jack Kessler]

The GoogleEarth download is very interesting, not only on its own but because it solved my access-problem with the virtual exhibition. I kept getting,

""The Google Maps API key used on this web site was registered for a different web site. You can generate a new key for this web site at http://www.google.com/apis/maps/"

-- every time I clicked. But downloading the GoogleEarth kmz maybe installed the right cookie bearing the proper BL virtual exhibition API key?

Anybody here really understand what happened, or is it all just digital Black Magic? Anyway, now I can see stuff... whew... I used to live in Bermondsey, long time ago...

[Jack Kessler]

One other access question: does downloading index.rtf really activate the blog's feed? If so then how & where do I receive it?

The maps look wonderful: GoogleMap's interface works very well for this purpose, and the "themes" selected provide a very useful guide.

In GoogleEarth, too, clicking the "London: A Life in Maps" box on & off, in MyPlaces, provides a fascinating look at the yesterday/today not only of London but also of mapping.

Just now, for instance, I am floating over Wapping, noting that Church Street became Scandrett Street, and that wonderfully-named Spirit(s?) Quay and Vinegar Street must not have been original. Fun, too, that the old map shows "Powder Magazine" positioned in the "open square", there: in Paris they lodged one of their more famous rare book collections just down the street from their gunpowder, too... or at least from where it formerly had been stored, and had blown up several times... And I remember the vinegar-smell, still wafting up the road in 1970s Bermondsey.