Funny how I come across resources on the net. I noticed someone visited my blog based on the search term “singapore marathon blogs”. (Now, here’s a community marketing opportunity the organisers of the marathon are missing big time.) Out of curiosity, I clicked the search term provided in my Performancing metrics report, and I found SinGeo.
If this was highlighted somewhere in my numerous feeds or on tomorrow.sg, I must have missed it. Anyway, Singapore is a small place. I noticed that a fellow Friend of Yesterday, Victor, already commented on one of the posts.
SinGeo is a new blog which highlights Google Earth resources relating to Singapore. If you’re a Google Earth user, you know that the default overlays are US-centric. What’re locals to do? Well, create our own stuff, that’s what! There’s already a comprehensive Singapore placemarks file for Google Earth. Now, SinGeo adds tremendously to the overlays and 3D models available relating to our little red dot.
Hmmm… must figure out how to make this post-World War II map of the Bishan area an overlay in Google Earth.
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Thanks for the mention. I agree that it’s the creation of local content for Google Earth that is required to make it valuable tool. After all there’s only so much fun to be had by finding your home… I’m planning to provide, fairly soon, a page for the submission of content (overlays, routes etc) and hope this will build over time a useful repository for users of Google Earth with an interest in Singapore. In the meantime, I’ve created an image overlay using the Bishan photo you mention and emailed it to you. Hope you like it.
Thanks for the overlay. Love it! Feel free to use it, as I’ve mentioned in my reply.