EarthNC - Nautical Data for a Digital World

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 and other sources. With the release of Google Earth 4.2 for windows, you can watch the videos within Google Earth. We’ve already ‘geotagged’ over 300 boating videos from as many world locations and are adding more daily.

Getting Started

1. Before downloading our Boating Videos for Google Earth KML file, we suggest that you first ensure that you have the latest version of Google Earth. The file won’t work properly unless you have at least version 4.2.  Get the latest Google Earth HERE.
2. Once you’ve verified that you have the latest Google Earth, open our Boating Videos for Google Earth KML file. This file will update with new boating videos automatically each time you open it in Google Earth
3. Locations with boating videos are marked with blue sailboat icons. Click on an icon to see videos for that location. If there’s more than one video, you can navigate between them using the Previous/Next links under the video preview. If you’re on Mac or Linux, use the ‘Video Link’ link to view the videos in your web browser.
4. For even more context to the videos, especially in North America, you can also open our EarthNC Online (free registration required) Google Earth file which adds charts, tides, weather, and more to your Google Earth world.

Usage Hints: If you’d like to search on title keywords, click on the ‘Boating Videos’ folder in your Places menu, type ‘control-f’ to open the search box, and type in your keywords. Use the arrow keys by the search box to navigate through matches. To go to a match, double-click on its entry in the places menu.

Help us Add More Videos

Do you have your own favorites already bookmarked or in a playlist? We’ve set up a Forum Thread just for posting your favorite boating video links. Be sure to include location info so we can geocode them properly. If you’re adding your own videos to YouTube, make sure you use their new location menu during upload so that we can automatically get the locations in the future.

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