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Quickly following up on their new 3D Ocean Floor in Google Earth 5.0, Google has been populating the ocean with a unique set of 3D models of famous shipwrecks, reefs, and other objects. To tour these models, you can open the 3D Ocean Models Tour.
Near and dear to EarthNC’s heart is the included [...]
We’re pleased to announce the release of our new EarthNC Bahamas Charts for Google Earth! Our first release includes over 100 charts for the Abacos, Berry, Bimini, Grand Bahama, and New Providence Islands. Chart data is provided by Wavey Line Publishing.
Our Northwest Bahamas Chart Package Includes:
Over 100 Charts for the Abacos, Berry, Bimini, Grand Bahama, [...]
Google Earth 5 requires a minor patch for those still using EarthNC Plus prior to version 2.10
You can verify your EarthNC Plus version by opening your EarthNC Plus Users Manual.
The patch is automatically applied with the v2.10 chart updates, but if you’d rather just update the affected file without updating charts, you can download the [...]
The oceans have come alive in brilliant 3D with the new Google Ocean layers in Google Earth 5. While Google has included some great starter content in their Ocean layers, EarthNC has a huge library of free nautical content to add to the ‘Ocean’ experience including charting, fishing and dive sites, weather, photos, videos, and [...]
EarthNC is pleased to include 1000’s of coastal aerial photos into our Online, Lite, and Plus product lines provided by EarthNC partner Marinas.com. Photos include marinas, inlets, bridges, restaurants, and much more. Each photo includes links to additional information about that location. Best of all, photos include not just the US Coasts, Great Lakes, and [...]
UPDATED 2/03/2010 - The Earth is 2/3rds water and judging by the huge volume of boating videos online, it’s clear that enjoying the water is a worldwide pursuit. To help put boating videos in their world context, EarthNC has put together a growing Google Earth map of boating videos drawn from YouTube. Videos are found [...]
The new Google Ocean capability in Google Earth 5.0 now provides the ability to ‘clamp’ overlays and features to the sea floor for 3D effect. To start testing this capability, we’ve rendered one of our Hawaii NOAA raster charts in the new format as shown in the image at left.
You can try it out yourself [...]
The EarthNC National Buoy Data Center (NDBC) Buoy Weather Google Earth file displays hourly weather observations for U.S. and international lakes, coastlines, and oceans based on available feeds from the NDBC. This KML file is refreshed at approximately 30 minutes after the hour each hour. It will automatically refresh in Google Earth.
Click HERE [...]
As more boaters take EarthNC out on their boats, we’ve noted an increasing interest in ‘live tracking’ of recreational boating trips for friends and family. EarthNC has been building a simple system to support real-time tracking based on Google Earth and various low-cost and free components. Read on to learn more about our [...]
It’s not every day that you get the opportunity to ride a fast boat in capable hands, as we did recently during the Sarasota Poker Run. To share our good fortune, we wanted to live cast our position and webcam photos during the run and then create a nice multimedia map afterwords. [...]
