Brightkite KML Support and Google Earth Visualizations
We recently added KML support to every Brightkite place page. To find it, just replace the .rss with .kml on the place page RSS feed.
For example: http://brightkite.com/places/77de68daecd823babbb58edb1c8e14d7106e83bb/objects.kml
Over the past few days we have been having a lot of fun visualizing live Brightkite activity by plugging network KML files into Google Earth.
You can visualize Brightkite place feeds in Google Earth as well, here’s how:
Download the following Brighkite Universe KML network file and open it in Google Earth:
brightkite_universe.kml
Here is another example showing activity from the Colorado place page:
brightkite_colorado.kml
We recommend only viewing one network feed at a time and changing your Google Earth “Fly Speed” to around 1.3.
Posted by Brady Becker at 12:41 PM in Product, Visualizations 6 comments
Wow pretty cool. What song is that?
Hi Danny, glad you like it. The song is: Computer Love – Glass Candy
for shame – the correct answer is
Glass Candy's cover of Computer Love by Kraftwerk (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P7dGfDxfe8&fe...
Yeah OK I know this. This is a cover….I should have given a shout-out to the original ;)
Nice!! Brightkite Vision :) Thanks for providing the Colorado place page link. Its addictive. :)
This is impressive =)