Posted in Featured Maps, Special Events on Aug 30th, 2007
While we were busy photographing the Offshore Super Series Races at Orange Beach, Alabama our home waters of Destin played host to the annual Emerald Coast Poker Run. Part of the festivities (although not an official part of the poker run itself), is live action filming of the go-fast boats from a helicopter. [...]
Posted in Charts and Maps, Featured Maps, destinations on Aug 26th, 2007
We found a nice little Google My Map showing boat ramps in the Cape Coral and Fort Myers area of Southwest Florida. We appreciate offidle.com - Southwest Florida Boating Enthusiasts for making this available as a Google My Map. Since it’s a My Map, we can show it below with our TakItWithMe [...]
Posted in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Trips and Guides, destinations, trips and routes on Aug 14th, 2007
The confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers into the Ohio at present-day Pittsburgh is an area rich in North American history and commerce. The rivers continue to serve the as economic highways connecting the mid-west to the Mississippi and on to the Gulf of Mexico and beyond. Adding to the economic value of the waterways is their extensive use for recreation.
Posted in TakItWithMe, trips and routes on Aug 11th, 2007
Google’s official spatial LatLong Blog featured a new Google My Map with a version of the historic 59 Mile Drive for San Francisco. This highlights the power of My Maps to convey user generated content to a wide audience. We also think this is a great map to highlight our TakItWithMe Embedded Map [...]
Posted in Charts and Maps, Featured Maps, Trips and Guides, destinations on Aug 9th, 2007
Boating World had a great article on “Great Escapes” in the September 2007 issue. We’ve put together a Google Earth Map to help you find each island. Click on any of the placemarks for links for additional online information like local maps, photos, videos, and websites.
We’ve also included links to the online versions of our EarthNC Marine Charts for Google Earth for each location. Complete Google Earth charts with depth soundings and contours are available in our EarthNC Plus chart system.
Posted in Block Island, Charts and Maps, Trips and Guides, destinations, videos on Aug 9th, 2007
A nautical delight, Block Island offers a range of sights and activities over it’s 10 square mile area. Most boating visitors make landfall at the aptly named Old Harbor or New Harbor (Great Salt Marsh) towns. The island is home to 2 lighthouses and many other historic buildings.
Posted in Block Island, Featured Maps, Rhode Island, Trips and Guides, videos on Aug 8th, 2007
While working on an upcoming EarthNC guide to island cruising destinations, we came across a great new blog call Island Spirit Sailing Adventures. Bloggers Hayden and Raydeen have done a great job writing about living aboard their Island Packet 35 in Block Island, Rhode Island this summer.
Better yet, they’ve captured some wonderful photos, [...]
Posted in EarthNC News, EarthNC Plus Charts, gps on Aug 6th, 2007
Frank Taylor from Google Earth Blog just got back from using EarthNC Plus in conjunction with GooPs real-time GPS software for Google Earth while sailing in the US and British Virgin Islands. EarthNC Plus includes full coverage of the US Virgil Islands based on official NOAA ENC charts.
Quoting Frank, “The whole setup worked very well [...]
Posted in Featured Maps, Special Events on Aug 4th, 2007
Mark your Calendars for August 16th - 19th as the Offshore Super Series Racing comes to Orange Beach, Alabama. Offshore Super Series features the fastest, most powerful racing boats on the water against each other over a roughly 6 mile circuit.
Action is kept close to the beach, or take your boat out behind the [...]
Posted in EarthNC News, TakItWithMe, Trips and Guides on Aug 1st, 2007
Have a blog or website where you’d like to highlight Google My Maps or KML files? Better yet, would you like to provide your readers an easy way to view your maps in both Google Maps, Google Earth, and be able to download map data to GPS devices? We invite your to try [...]