Training Materials
Google Maps Basics:
1. Slide deck
2. Go to Google Maps: maps.google.com
3. Search for your business listing: GYBO.com
4. Go to Google Map Maker: mapmaker.google.com
Raleigh's favorite Street View panoramas
1. Galapagos Islands: Blue-footed boobies | Sea lions
2. Canadian Arctic: Sled dogs | Inuit art museum
3. Gombe National Park: Jane Goodall's house | Chimpanzee in tree
4. Khumbu, Nepal (Sherpa villages near Everest): Buddhist monastery | Sherpa Culture Museum | Yak Parking Lot
PhotoSpheres:
1. Methods for creating photo spheres
2. Sharing PhotoSpheres from mobile
4. Photospheres and Virtual Reality
Storytelling with Maps (Tour Builder)
1. Slide deck
2. Demo tour: here
3. Demo data on Google Doc: here
4. Encyclopedia Virginia example: A Virginian Abroad: Paquiquineo & the Age of Exploration
4. Go to Tour Builder here
5. Trans-Antartica Expedition map (.kmz)
Google Earth files:
Tutorial on adding points, lines and polygons
1. Slide deck
2. 1907 map of downtown Charlottesville (.jpg)
3. John Smith map of the Chesapeake Bay (.jpg)
4. John Smith map of the Chesapeake Bay (.kmz)
7. Cherokee Journey YouTube video (see 0:30-1:23 for Google Earth part)
My Maps files:
1. Encyclopedia Virginia contributors (.csv)
2. Virginia Museums (.xlsx)
3. Virginia tornadoes (.csv)
Resources
1. Slide deck
2. Creating Immersive Virtual Tours with Google Tools Slide deck