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Time-Enabled Norwegian Weather Forecasts in Google Earth
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The Ogle Earth presents a nice application of the time-enabled Google Earth kml: Norwegian weather forecasts. From the blog: "It comes with cute-as-a-button icons, color-coded temperatures (which I really like — check northern Norway) and — the pièce de resistance — it's all time-enabled. Icons change from suns during the day to moons at night, you can click them for more local info, and if you turn on the preciptiation overlays, you'll see that cloud layers there match the icons. [...] As you've noticed, GEs time support still leaves a lot to be desired, but I think it works fairly well in this example."
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