Brightkite KML Support and Google Earth Visualizations

May 27th, 2008

We recently added KML support to every Brightkite place page. To find it, just replace the .rss with .kml on the place page RSS feed.

For example: http://brightkite.com/places/77de68daecd823babbb58edb1c8e14d7106e83bb/objects.kml

Over the past few days we have been having a lot of fun visualizing live Brightkite activity by plugging network KML files into Google Earth.

You can visualize Brightkite place feeds in Google Earth as well, here’s how:

Download the following Brighkite Universe KML network file and open it in Google Earth:

brightkite_universe.kml

Here is another example showing activity from the Colorado place page:

brightkite_colorado.kml

We recommend only viewing one network feed at a time and changing your Google Earth “Fly Speed” to around 1.3.

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Posted by Brady Becker at 12:41 PM in Product, Visualizations

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Danny Holland

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439 weeks ago

Wow pretty cool. What song is that?

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Paul Krygowski

439 weeks ago

for shame - the correct answer is

Glass Candy's cover of Computer Love by Kraftwerk (1981)

/save/_embed/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P7dGfDxfe8&fe...

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Brady Becker

52p

439 weeks ago

Yeah OK I know this. This is a cover....I should have given a shout-out to the original ;)

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Brian DeWitt

439 weeks ago

Nice!! Brightkite Vision :) Thanks for providing the Colorado place page link. Its addictive. :)

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Angelo Lakra

438 weeks ago

This is impressive =)

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