ECDL2006 - Google Earth

I will be at the 10th ECDL - European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (henceforth ECDL2006) in September in Alicante, Spain.

I very much enjoy pre-visiting places I will be in Google Earth, so that I get an idea of the lay of the land.  (It's a bit odd actually, once I get there, walking around a place where I've never been, but that I have seen in very high-resolution satellite photos.)

I made a Google Earth folder of placemarks for the venues and hotels listed on the ECDL2006 website.  This was not helped by 1) people putting tiny, mostly terrible maps on their websites 2) The fact that Google has the streets and Yellow-Pages-search-results placemarks mis-aligned by about 10 metres over the entire city.

Download ECDL2006.kmz

Anyway, I've placed my placemarks as close as I could figure to the right spots.

For the hotels, I listed whether they said anything about Internet, and belatedly, recalling smoking-friendly Europe, whether they explicitly listed non-smoking rooms.

UPDATE 2006-07-25: Thanks to the fact that Google Maps can also now read .kmz files, you can view the above placemarks on the web in the GM interface.

Comments

[Stephen De Gabrielle]

I'm going too!

ECDL2006 in iCal calendar format;

http://ical.mac.com/spdegabrielle/ECDL2006

webcal://ical.mac.com/spdegabrielle/ECDL2006.ics
http://ical.mac.com/spdegabrielle/ECDL2006.ics

Stephen

[Richard Akerman]

Nice! I have been sticking stuff in my Google Calendar, but not with any level of detail.

There's some info at Google Calendar experiments.

You can also see the calendar itself on my about page.