Google Earth add on

We are pleased to announce that the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves are now available as a downloadable add on to Google Earth.

Google Earth is a 3D mapping interface, to the entire planet provide by Google, best known for their search engine software.

This interactive mapping software allows you to move around the world to any particular location and using photographs taken from satellites, view it from space. You can then zoom in closer and closer until, in some cases, you can see individual cars on the street, boats in the water, or various buildings and monuments.

Google Earth can be customised according to your own interests, and this information can then be shared with other users. Roger Driver, a Cornwall Wildlife Trust volunteer, has kindly plotted all the Cornwall Wildlife Trust nature reserves and started to add overlays of map boundaries of our nature reserves. This file can be downloaded as a Google Earth add on.

The add ons consist of three basic types:

• Place marks – a plot on the map for each place of interest, in our case each nature reserve.
• Network links – links from Google Earth to other web based information. In this case, the specific page on our web site about that reserve.
• Overlays – additional graphical information about the area. In this case a number of nature reserve boundaries have been superimposed over the Google satellite tiles to add extra detail.

Google Earth is free for personal use and no registration is required. To download Google Earth and find out more about installation requirements visit the Google Earth website at http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html.

Once you have downloaded the software click on the link below to download the latest Cornwall Wildlife Trust add-on.

	Cornwall Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves (kmz format - 250kb)
	Cornwall Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves including overlays (kmz format - 1,656kb)

This file includes place marks of all 54 reserves and a number of overlays. More overlays will be added in due course so do come back!

Google Earth map of Cornwall

If you found this useful why not let us know via our entry in the Google Earth User Forum and don't forget to give us your rating too!

You can also add your own topics at the Google Earth user forums (http://bbs.keyhole.com/) where there are already over 80,000 (yes 80 thousand) topics listed.

Cornwall Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves

List of reserves ... Armstrong Woods Bakers Pit Beales Meadow Bissoe Valley Bosvenning Common Cabilla and Redrice Woods Caer Brân Carn Moor Chûn Downs Churchtown Farm Chyverton Devichoys Wood Downhill Meadow Fal-Ruan Estuary Five Acres Fox Corner Greena Moor Halbullock Hawkes Wood Helman Tor Kemyel Crease Kennall Vale Lanvean Bottoms Loggan's Moor Loveny Lower Lewdon Luckett Maer Lake Nansmellyn Marsh North Predannack Downs Park Hoskyn Pendarves Wood Penlee Battery Phillips's Point Priddacombe Downs Prideaux Wood Quoit Heathland Redlake Cottage Meadows Ropehaven Cliffs Rosenannon Downs St Erth Pits St George's Island Swanvale Sylvia's Meadow Tamar Estuary Tincombe Trebarwith Tresayes Tywardreath Marsh Upton Meadow Upton Towans Ventongimps Moor Welcombe & Marsland Windmill Farm

Introduction - Key to symbols - Gallery - Google Earth
Reserves Handbook

Nature reserves ... Introduction List of reserves Key to symbols Management Collecting Volunteering PARC diary SEARCH . . . . . . . . .