Explore Our Planet

The Google Earth Plugin turns browsers into full Earth browsers. Well, not supported is UNIX, Apple, but FireFox and Internet Explorer running on Windows 2000 or better. The API of the plugin is well supported and this site will have a progressing amount of f ...>>

I was quite excited while visiting this UN site: data.un.org. You'll find a huge amount of figures provided by different UN agencies. The data is free to use, ready to download and presented by a slick WEB2.0 interface. Of cource data from the UNFCCC is ther ...>>

The NEO Project (NASA Earth Observations) provides an advanced flash interface, map download, analysis features and a full fledged OGC WMS server. The range of available layers are all related to Climate Change and Global Warming. As a first try ExploreOur ...>>

The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) integrates remote sensing and GIS technologies to deliver MODIS active fire locations to natural resource managers and other stakeholders around the World in near real time. With a resolution of 1 squ ...>>

Quite a lot of AJAX desktops popped up since Web2.0. NetVibes is most flexible, has a mini API and accepts external moduls. First attempts of integrating ExploreOuPla.net as iframe failed, the full screen interface is not optimized for small windows. But ...>>

Google has now indexed more than 10,000 pages of ExploreOurPla.net and offers on-site search results. Not only to reduce server load I've disabled the internal wordpress search and let now Google do the work. Example: Search results for Tuvalu Actually ...>>

It is a while ago after last explorer update. Latest multimedia extension was audio from the Freesound Project. I'm interested for a long time in digital video and so videos on the map was in the pipeline from the beginning of this project. Now here is th ...>>

Google AdSense Quality Team has forced me to change the layout of the map explorer. Now there is a toolbar on the right side with permallink and clickmap. Registered Users will find the permalink in the info section of the flyout menu . I'd like to say tha ...>>

This is just an announcement and the supporting post for the tutorial describing how to implement labeled permalinks for Google Maps. Read everything about here and use the comment function below for questions and proposals: Tutorial for labeled permalinks, ...>>

In the upper right corner ExploreOurPla.net now has a location detector. It displays the location of the center of the map and provides a labeled permalink ready for your bookmarks and mails. After every move ExplorerOurPla.net connects to geonames.org, s ...>>

As announced yesterday Google Maps now includes an API to provide geocoding. When you want to see a place on the map, simply write the address in the box and hit enter. When Google finds something the explorer opens and gives you an overview of the sea ...>>

During the development of the geoRSS widget for ExploreOurPla.net I used this list for testing: newsrss.bbc.co.uk//rss/newsonline_world_ ... rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/climatechange ... rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/earthquakes ... rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/hurricane ...>>

After a while of silent ExploreOurPla.net adapts to new Google Maps 2. Google made major changes to their code and map database. The update will give you overlays and more detailed maps. Google Satellite Maps provides more high resolution pictures, mainly o ...>>

A new JSON service from geonames.org is online. It works together with the Daily Terra layer and the calendar widget. Currently it displays data from last 30 days depending on your choosed date. Latest Cyclones near Australia have been Larry and Glenda. ...>>

Latest JSON service from geonames provides near realtime weather from Internet Weather Source. More than 7200 airports update every hour. Current temperature and wind direction is displayed via an icon.<-40°C<-20°C<0°C<10°C< ...>>

As a result of collaboration with geonames.org we proudly unleash the first 2 new map extensions: Placenames and Earthquakes. Both extensions are part of the default geoLink (999) , you can toggle them (FireFox only) with Alt-p for placenames or Alt-q for e ...>>

Many thanks to all helping to improve the codebase of the Internet. Latest Firefox plugin called FireBug has dramatically changed and improved my programming performance. Using Ajax has turned from a hazzle to a pleasure with FireBugs XML inspector. T ...>>

It is really annoying to develop for Firefox *and* Internet Explorer. Both do different CSS and Javascript. For me a two monitor setup saves time and clicks. As the blog's sidebar went bigger and bigger I was looking for a solution capable of saving the curr ...>>