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New South Wales Globe

by Timothy Whitehead on Sep.21, 2015, 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

We have introduced you to NSW Globe in the past, but it is well worth a revisit.

New South Wales is an Australian state. Its local government has made available, via a Google Earth KML file found on this site, a wealth of information. The most recent addition is property price and sale information for the whole state.


The popup includes links to property sales information from the last five years for the property in question or for the street or suburb.

Most interesting is how all the data is served. We believe that they are using Google Earth Enterprise. Note that the KML file does not open in ‘Places’ but rather in the ‘Layers’ section. We have seen this before with links from the Google Maps Gallery. One of the side effects of this is that you cannot save it for later, so you have to reopen the downloaded KML file every time you want to view the data. It also stops you from downloading all the data locally and sharing it – a form of copy protection.

The imagery loads smoothly as if it is just another Google Earth layer. Also interesting is that it comes with its own terrain model (as a selectable layer) that is slightly different from Google Earth’s built in terrain. From what we could tell by looking around Sydney, Google Earth’s terrain model is higher resolution.

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Exploring New South Wales, Australia in Google Earth

by Mickey Mellen on Feb.12, 2014, 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

The New South Wales (Australia) Government has just released a new product they’re calling the NSW Globe which compiles a ton of information about the state into a single, powerful KML file. The goal of the site, according to NSW minister for finance and services Andrew Constance:

The tool allows users to find out more about their property or local area, and provides access to historical information including aerial photographs of Sydney from the 1940s, as well as flood maps from places like Bourke, Moree and Wagga

Inside the KML file you’ll find the following:

  • Imagery (medium and high resolution aerial, satellite both government and private sourced)
  • Additional imagery (1943 Sydney Historic, Emergency Services)
  • Terrain data (25m DTMS, 5m DTMS, LiDAR and SRTM various locations)
  • Places (e.g. population centre, suburb, other places)
  • Boundaries (e.g. coastline, local government, localities, electoral state and federal)
  • Roads (e.g. arterial road, minor road, other)
  • Rail (e.g. railway line, railway station)
  • Addresses (property and address)
  • Land parcel (e.g. lot and deposited plan, property boundary, labels)

For example, here is a shot of Sydney using the 1943 imagery:

sydney 1943

It’s quite an impressive product and it provides an amazing amount of information about New South Wales. Check it out for yourself at globe.six.nsw.gov.au.

(via TechWorld)

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