Hey John - too bad about Prezi. I've been meaning to give it a try with that idea in mind.
I've done presentations for other people in Google Earth. So there was a KML file tour that flew to different locations and showed event markers and photos (showing the use of mobile devices in events and disaster reporting). It worked quite well, make a set of videos to run in the slides of the presentation with the KML source file to share with others. For maps you could use an Image Overlays and Popup balloons in the KML. Andrew On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 1:39 PM, John McKerrell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > I'm giving a presentation in a month's time. I was originally intending to > use prezi.com and wanted to show a map of the world which I could zoom in > and out of to show detail and tell stories about various places. Prezi was > actually the inspiration for me using that format. Unfortunately I'm not > having much luck with their site, not sure if my images are too big or I'm > scaling things out too much but it's just not working well. > > So, I'm wondering if there's anything else you can suggest. I guess I have > two main options, either using a projected map or using a spinny globe. I'm > guessing that Google Earth could do the job but if there's anything more > appropriate I'd be glad to hear about it. I'd like to be able to display > text and photos at each location. Ideally I'll be able to pre-cache tiles > (oh yes, I'd like it to display my own map tiles if possible) and it'll all > work nicely and smoothly. Also the ability to share it in some way would be > good though I imagine a movie would suffice. I'd rather not have to start > coding something up so that I can spend more time on the presentation and > less on the tools! > > Appreciate any suggestions you may have, > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > -- Andrew Turner mobile: 248.982.3609 [email protected] http://highearthorbit.com http://geocommons.com Helping build the Geospatial Web Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
