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Friday, March 21. 2008

Buy A Tree; Get KML

Remember the Star Registry? You pay a fee and get a star named after you. The deliverable is a certificate with the star's location. It's been offered as a gift for major occasions. Well, now there's a better, more earthly option. The World Wildlife Fund offers the chance to buy a sapling to be planted in the Sebangau National Forest in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia and in return, get a KML file of its location. It's called mybabytree.org.

Says Leslie Rule:
While the idea is great, the execution brilliant (JWT did the creative), the social good unassailable, what makes this unlike any online donation site is the process that connects the donor with the tree. Once the tree is planted, it is a given a number, geo-tagged with lat/long coordinates, and located in a Google Earth kmz file, which is then sent to the donor.


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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google at 07:20 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

Google Storm Surge Warning Tool Ahead

The director of the National Hurricane Center described a soon to be released tool where those fearing flooding from a surge caused by hurricane need only visit Google and key in an address for a prediction of the impact of the event.

Bill Read, the new head of the U.S. forecasting center describes the tool as a mix of data and Google apps (I'm guess maps?).

The plan is to have the app up and running by the coming Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30.

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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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