Google Earth is in the news this morning with the announcement that the Keyhole Markup Language, used to create content layers in Google Earth, is now an open standard. There are already thousands of Keyhole-based layers for Google Earth, but finding the best ones is sometimes a needle in a haystack proposition.
I've been out of town for the past two weeks and in the process of catching up on the news I stumbled across one particularly noteworthy Google Earth layer — content from the New York Times mapped out in Google Earth.
Want to see what's happening in Paris? Just fire up the New York Times layer (in the “Geographic Web” folder) and look for the New York Times placemarks. Now just fly over to Paris and you'll see all the Times articles from Paris in the last month.
The layer updates every fifteen minutes which should keep all but the most rabid of news junkies happy. As the Google Lat/Long blog notes, combining the Times layer with Panoramio or YouTube layers yields a nice mix of professional news content and additional amateur insights.
The new New York Times layer requires the latest version of Google Earth.
[via Kottke]
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