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• Canada Lands Survey System - Canada Lands in Earth Browsers

  From Natural Resources Canada. View the administrative boundaries and cadastral parcels within Indian Reserves, National Parks and the territories.

• Earth Point - Tools for Google Earth

  • Convert Coordinates - Calculate a position in a variety of formats

  • Excel To KML - Display Excel files on Google Earth

  • Township and Range - Public Land Survey System on Google Earth

• Family Tree Assistant - Family Tree Mapping Resources

  Download Map My Ancestors, a program to allow your family tree to be viewed in Google Earth. Takes you through the steps of importing your GEDCOM, selecting individuals, confirming locations and finally viewing the results in Google Earth.

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• Google Earth Hacks - Fun stuff for Google Earth

  • City, Country Maps

    • Ireland Counties

    • Tribal Boundaries

• Google Earth Library

  The following include the KML links that I suggest you use with Google Earth.

  • Geoname.org Network Links

    Administrative Boundary Features (country, state, region,...); Hydrographic Features (stream, lake, ...); Area Features (parks,area, ...); Populated Place Features (city, village,...); Road / Railroad Features (road, railroad ); Spot Features (spot, building, farm); Hypsographic Features (mountain,hill,rock,... ); Undersea Features (undersea); Vegetation Features (forest,heath,...).

  • Historic Topos

  • Historic US State Boundaries

    Displays the configuration of US states and territories every 10 years from 1790 to 1920.

  • National Register of Historic Places

    Approximately 80,000 districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that are significant in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture.

  • Rumsey Map Collection

    Maps most of which are dated before the 1850s.

  • US County Polygons

    Colored polygons outline all of the counties in the US.

  • US Statehood Time Animation

    Animation showing the US States in the order that they were added to the Union.

  • USGS Topographic Maps

    Maps dated from 1978 to 2005 covering land use, feature names, the locations of natural features, and topographic elevation contours.

  • World Country Borders

    Colored polygons of of each country in the world with links to the applicable CIA World Factbook page.

• Google LatLong Blog

  News from the Google Earth and Maps team.

• Immigration.kmz

  Shows how a student mapped immigration paths and illustrated the immigrants with photos.

• Placemarkers with Google maps for Vancouver, Whistler, BC, and Canada

  • National Historic Sites

• PLSS in Google Earth (PLSGE)

  Metzger + Willard, Inc, a civil engineering firm has provided a free application that runs in Google Earth version 5.0 or later. (PLSGE) This application provides Township and Section lines as an overlay on Google Earth as well as an overlay for the Principal Meridians and Baselines. PLSGE has search capabilities for Townships and Sections.

• StudentsOfDescent: Google Earth

  • Using old maps, Google Earth, deeds and census records to find your ancestral home place

    From Virginia Family Tree Genealogy.

• StudentsOfDescent: Google Earth

  Instructions and an introduction to using Google Earth for genealogical purposes. Specifically meant to enhance the presentation of a family history book or ancestor book. As well as being able to share “migration tours” via email.

• The Historic County Border Project - Data Download

  Download a file with the historic counties of England in GoogleEarth KMZ format.

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