Map the Fallen in Google Earth

[link to www.mapthefallen.org]
Map the Fallen in Google Earth
[link to www.gearthblog.com]
Back in November of 2005, a Google Earth Community member posted the first version of a map showing US and Coalition soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. He worked with other members of the Google Earth Community to refine the map over time - and worked hard to focus on just providing a memorial to these fallen soldiers - not provide a political statement about the war. Since 2005, Sean Askay worked on his master's thesis involving Google Earth and sensor networks to monitor a protected wilderness, and after landing a job at Google, has been working for the Google Earth Outreach team helping organizations create content to make people aware of environmental and human issues around the world.


Meanwhile, using his 20% time at Google, Sean continued to refine the casualties map, and his knowledge of KML has also advanced. He has produced one of the most sophisticated, yet elegant, and very informative KML files I've seen to date (and I've seen a lot of KML in the last 4 years!).

View the map here
[link to map.mapthefallen.org]

[Google Earth 5 Required. You must have GE 5 installed.]

[link to earth.google.com]

(Google Earth 5 required) which appears on his Map the Fallen blog. According to Google (which posted this on their Lat Long Blog):