World Maps

[BrownStreak]

I have been attempting to plan a trip to Europe for this summer or next and I have found it hard to match parks up with which city they are near. I am a visual person. A few "personals" sites that I am on have world maps with a dot where each person is from. I thought it would be cool to do something like that on here but with a dot for each park and maybe if you click on it, it will tell you which park it is.

 

You could have either different sized dots or different coloured dots depending on how big the park is. Just a thought...any ideas?

[Wes]

Can't you sort of already do this with Google Earth?

[BrownStreak]

That's not going to to show me multiple parks and their relation to each other as well as other cities

[Wes]

Yeah, it can. Just create Placemarks for the parks you want and cities.

The Placemarks in action.

[Wes]

Just as an example, I made some Placemarks for the parks in SoCal, so now you can see them in relation to other cities. Plus, you have the added advantage of Google Earth to zoom in and out, pan, and such.

[Red]

Wouldn't something like this be better at a site like RCDB?

[rollermonkey]

Er, Duane's been working on that one for about two years or so. If you know the exact latitude and longitude for a park, send it to him, and he'll update the park. (He has lots of parks hooked up with google earth and MNS already, so check first!)

[davidmorton]

We had a Google Earth conversation ages ago;

 

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42980

 

In there you can find links to stuff like a Googel Earth file that has "all the parks" in it (like everywhere).

 

[Loefet]

Or you could go here and download a file containing a placemark for every (almost) park in the world, so you don´t have to do it your self.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/52647/page/