Google Earth Gets YouTube Videos
October 11, 2007 | by Geoff Duncan
Another sign of Google integrating YouTube through its services: a new YouTube layer in Google Earth lets users view videos associated with specific locations.
Internet giant Google continues to integrate online video from YouTube throughout its services. The company's latest move? A new YouTube layer within the company's popular Google Earth application, which lets users find and watch videos associated with particular locations on the planet.
For the uninitiated, Google Earth is a free three-dimensional representation of the Earth (and, recently, the heavens). User can zoom into any point on the planet they like, downloading satellite imagery of the location. Data layers enable users to overlay different types of information on the display, including useful layers like landmarks, maps, buildings, and terrain information, and user-created data layers.
The new YouTube layer enables users to view user-contributed videos associated with a particular location: YouTube submitters can geo-tag their videos when they upload them to the YouTube service; however, Google Earth users cannot (yet) geo-tag YouTube videos to bring them into the layer.
The new layer appears in the "Featured Content" folder on the left-side panel of the Google Earth application. Users can search for videos of their favorite places, and more videos appear as users zoom into particular locations. Videos can be viewed either on the YouTube site or within the Google Earth application.
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Sylvie on Oct 13th, 2007 at 10:24 AM:
another mashup already exists since several month: http://www.VeniVidiWiki.eu ,
it shows videos from youtube, dailymotion, google video, turnhere ... on top of google maps.
Videos are selected regarding quality and pertinence criteria ?
Points of interest are classified: capitals, events, natural/cultural places, outdoors activities, etc ...