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Researchers from across Australia have joined together to develop detailed digital maps of the country’s soil and landscape attributes. They have put the data online and made it available for free. The maps can be downloaded for use in GIS programs, but at about 4Gb per file that is not something the casual viewer would want to do. However, they have helpfully made the maps available to be viewed in Google Earth. Just grab the KML file they provide and you can browse through the maps with ease, and Google Earth only downloads what you want to look at, at the resolution you require. Although I believe GIS programs can do something similar, when it comes to browsing through maps of this nature Google Earth is unique.

Map of Silt 15-30 cm : Estimated value

For more about how and why the maps were created watch this YouTube on their site.

For more also see this article.

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