InfoVis 2007 tutorial : 'Visualization with Google Earth and GIS' - downloads

Software

You will need to install the following software in advance of the tutorial from the links provided.

Google Earth download

A 'geobrowser' that is used throughout the tutorial to display and interact with geographic information.

• http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
  Google Earth runs on PC, Mac and Linux

LandSerf download

A freely available geographic information system for surface analysis and visualization that is used in session 2 of the tutorial.

• http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~jwo/landserf/infovis/
  LandSerf runs on any platform that supports the Java Runtime Environment (Windows, MacOSX, Unix, Linux etc.)

Data

You should download the following data in advance of the tutorial from the link provided.

1.2.1 - raster surfaces and the landserf gis

Zip archive containing surface representations of population density and georeferenced Flickr photograph locations for use in LandSerf :

• surfaceData.zip : [size 4,465 KB]