Quickly share locations using the Google Earth Plug-in
by Google Earth Blog on May.09, 2011, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA
As most of you know, I started Google Earth Hacks around the same time that Frank started Google Earth Blog. While the blog now occupies much of my time, I still try to add new features over at GEH from time to time.
A few years back, I created a tool called EasyLatLon as a way to very quickly find the latitude/longitude for any location on earth. With the development work I do in Google Maps, quickly grabbing lat/lon for a specific location can be quite handy.
Over the past few weeks, I've been working to add more features to the tool to make it more useful for our users. In particular, you can now save any location with a single click, whether you're logged in or not. From there, if you're logged in, you can then submit it to the site to share with others in just a few clicks.
Here's a quick video showing how it works:
If you ever have a need to quickly grab the lat/lon for a location, or want to show someone a specific location in Google Earth, I hope this tool is useful for you. You can always find it at gearthhacks.com/easylatlon.