see ObsCatalog

I've put together a google based visualization tool for a basic observation catalog visualization via kml/google earth. Folks can either download and modify the base scripts or use it as an http service which when supplied a basic CSV file and observation types list produces a KML file.

Might be useful for encouraging/engaging other observation systems to list their assets via KML. We are struggling as a community to provide some consistent metadata(xml schemas, controlled vocabularies/codelists, web services) across our organizations and I'm hoping KML and it's easy visualizations can help provide some incentive(a carrot) towards this.

Short description from another post below.

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If you can provide an input catalog csv file via http similar to the following sample file:
catalog_in.csv

and use or supply your own observation types list similar to the following:
obs_types.txt

You can get a google earth kml file which should view similar to the attached sample screenshot by supplying those arguments to the following link similarly:

http://carocoops.org/gearth/catalog/csv2...l/obs_types.txt