{"id":414,"date":"2017-01-08T18:14:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2017-01-08T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T18:14:10","slug":"rip-earth-api-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/08\/rip-earth-api-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP-Earth-API-Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-417 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/geteachv5Edit-1140x463.jpg\" width=\"1140\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/geteachv5Edit-1140x463.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/geteachv5Edit-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/geteachv5Edit-768x312.jpg 768w, https:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/geteachv5Edit.jpg 1889w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Google is finally shutting down the Google Earth API. (please note &#8211; This is the web version of Google Earth; Google Earth on a PC will still work) The shutdown is over two years in the making (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps-apis.googleblog.com\/2014\/12\/announcing-deprecation-of-google-earth.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google&#8217;s 2014 Deprecation Announcement<\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/geteach.com\" target=\"_blank\">Geteach.com&#8217;s<\/a> first several versions where based off this API. (<a href=\"http:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/10\/geteach-com-a-project-that-got-away-from-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">History of geteach.com here<\/a>) As stated many times before, Google Maps API has been a net gain for <a href=\"http:\/\/geteach.com\" target=\"_blank\">geteach.com<\/a>; mainly because Google has engineers working on the service. However, there are a couple of features I will miss from the Earth API.<\/p>\n<h5>geteach.com Video Tutorial (Last Google Earth API version) &#8211; Published January 14, 2014<\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m9UbEJlz49Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What I will first miss most with the plugin is historic imagery. This is where <a href=\"http:\/\/geteach.com\" target=\"_blank\">geteach.com<\/a> could show the same place at two different times. This was great for looking at natural disasters. (See Videos Below)<\/p>\n<h5>Moore, OK Tornado &#8211; Published June 11, 2013<\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ns_Y-7Tj_4E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Historical Imagery-Warsaw &#8211; Published August 4, 2012<\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0UeWJe4XlrM?start=71&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Second, and similar to the first, most missed feature will be the historic time slider that allowed students and I to create interesting change over time kml files. (See Videos Below)<\/p>\n<h5>Comparing Volcanic Ash with Air Traffic &#8211; Published March 31, 2013<\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BXva8a1krMo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Hurricane Sandy with Population Density &#8211; Published January 8, 2017<\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MZv8bGxaPv0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There were other ways I used to time slider. For example, the video below shows sea level rise. Every decade equals +\/- 10 meters. (See Videos Below)<\/p>\n<h5>Sea level rise with Earth at Night &#8211; Published January 8, 2017<\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P0Y716xVleQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>However, what I will miss the most about the plugin was in its ability to load and share .kml files. Part of the reason why I created geteach.com was to have a platform where I could have a base set of .kml files showing physical and human spatial characteristics. (<a href=\"http:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/10\/geteach-com-a-project-that-got-away-from-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">see previous blog post<\/a>) A lesser known feature to <a href=\"http:\/\/geteach.com\" target=\"_blank\">geteach.com <\/a>is that students can import their own .kml files and compare their student created maps with each others or one of the base sets of maps. <\/p>\n<h5>Climate Regions Layer with student&#8217;s quick draw ecosystem layer<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-419 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SsExampleSmall-1140x477.jpg\" width=\"1140\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SsExampleSmall-1140x477.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SsExampleSmall-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SsExampleSmall-768x321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SsExampleSmall.jpg 1886w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/h5>\n<p>This feature is still available in the new &#8220;Google Maps&#8221; version of <a href=\"http:\/\/geteach.com\" target=\"_blank\">geteach.com<\/a>. However, the Google Earth plugin did a much better job rendering .kml files created in the Google Earth client. This is especially true with image overlays and other raster files; something not easily done with the Maps API and nearly impossible to teach younger students. I am sadden to shut down my first website. Hopefully Google has something up its sleeve for 2017.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-420 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tombAPI.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tombAPI.png 400w, https:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tombAPI-300x235.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Google is finally shutting down the Google Earth API. (please note &ndash; This is the web version of Google Earth; Google Earth on a PC will still work) The shutdown is over two years in the making (Google&rsquo;s 2014 Deprecation Announcement). Geteach.com&rsquo;s first several versions where based off this API. 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