Google wants you to watch YouTube videos everywhere. Now you can watch geo-tagged videos inside Google Earth. Any video tagged with a latitude and longitude will show up when this new layer of Google Earth is turned on. So you can watch videos about the places you are exploring inside Google Earth.
It’s a good way to show videos in the context of where they were shot, and also gets more plays for videos that might have otherwise been lost in the YouTube vortex. Of course, people have been embedding YouTube videos in 2-D Google Maps for a while now. But that seems to require more of a manual process. I’d like to see all geo-tagged videos automatically pop up in a video layer on Google Maps as well.
Projects like this point to a day when the entire world will be tagged by its citizens—with videos and text and photos and hyperlinks. Add mobile maps to the equation, and the line between what is virtual and real will begin to blur. Imagine flipping open your phone to see how other people have tagged the spot that you are standing in (although, this is more a Google-Maps scenario than a Google-Earth scenario, at least until you can run Google Earth on a phone). It would be a great way to create travel video guides.
This is why I read TC. Thanks. Sounds like Google did well with YouTube.
There must be thousands of video tagged with New York or Paris …etc.
How are the videos presented? A drop-down list?
@Deals and Coupons, this is good too: http://www.readwriteweb.com/ar....._earth.php
I love google, always give me something really exceting…
Erick, think bigger.
Take off the satellite imagery skin, let folks create their own images to wrap around the globe, and this might be Google’s way to create a Second Life killer. More thoughts here: http://www.socialcustomer.com/.....perim.html
Kudos to google, a nice way of integrating youtube with one of their services just like Adsense. Must say they do have the most talented people from silicon valley.
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com
This is fantastic. I have not tired it by the idea, I think, is really good. I like it. Beyond the technical or business prowess there is the coolness factor. And it is cool.
I love how the Vietnam Business Portal comes up as the first related website to TC in the Alexa toolbar. This is why I use IE.
There is a mashup (http://mappeo.net) that does something similar on the browser, it integrates google-maps with youtube geotagged videos.
You can zoom in and out and filter specific keywords.
First video ads, now this. There was a grand plan for youtube after all.
YouTube just about anywhere you like eh?
I’ll have some YouTube in my shoes please. Thanks!
Works poorly!
Use terraserver, the real thing!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
I think this is one more move closer to ‘local’ for Google. Google is aiming to use this to provide local video advertising. Local video ads are currently being dominated by IYPs. The local video ad production market is led by Turnhere and GlobeShooter
This reminded me of what this website http://www.oggtours.com/ is trying to do with audio tours of areas. Essentially applying audio information about various locales.
a similar tool already exists since March, on top of google maps
in addition, the videos are selected according to minimum quality/relevance
http://www.VeniVidiWiki.eu
(meaning: I came, I saw, .. I share !)
points of interest are classified in 50 categories (capitals, events, natural/cultural places, outdoors activities …)
it can show videos from youtube, dailymotion, google video, turnhere …
You might want to check out William Gibson’s latest novel, SPOOK COUNTRY. The story goes to some very interesting places–no surprise with a Gibson book–but the starting point for it all is a woman who takes a journalism assignment and begins researching a new form of virtual art, “locative art,” which is tied to specific places and is visible only at those places via a virtual reality head-set.
It’s an interesting reverse twist on the speculative last paragraph of your piece.
Kind of similar to what http://www.citypixel.com has done. They allow you to integrate YouTube videos into different parts of the city. Pretty cool though!
another alternative, for more relevant selection:
with Google Earth 4.2, it is also possible to open .kmz files containing videos about specific topics.
As an example, here are some videos about world capitals: http://www.VeniVidiWiki.eu/kmz/Capitals-V1.0.kmz that I collected from the Wiki.
Is there anyone in the Denver area who would like to mentor teenagers on this topic. Arts Street is a creative job training program for youth and we are excited about this technology.