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Footsteps of the Buddha for Google Earth

http://footstepsotb.blogspot.com/

This is a blog to keep track of updates to Footsteps of the Buddha for Google Earth, a geo-biography of Siddhartha Gotama the Historical Buddha. Subscribe to it if you want to know about what I add to this project.

• Added on: May 25th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Robert
• Listed in: Buddhism History
• Tags: Buddhism history gis biography google earth

Recent Posts

• What's New (Version 31)

  Posted on Tuesday June 3rd, 2008 at 04:54

  Things are slowly being improved. I'm going back through and editing my sloppy descriptions to make them more informative, and perhaps more suitable for people who don't know anything about Siddhartha Gotama's life or Buddhism in general. Really my o...

• Placemark Icons

  Posted on Friday May 30th, 2008 at 20:43

  I'd sort of like to improve the icons used to mark various places, but I haven't found any good ones yet. For example, it would be nice to have a good dhammacakka (dhamma wheel) icon to mark the main four pilgrimage sites, some icon (maybe a golden B...

• New browser plugin version available

  Posted on Thursday May 29th, 2008 at 09:47

  Look what I just threw together: an in-browser version of FotB for use with the new Google Earth browser plugin.This version has the advantage that you can get an easy guided tour by just clicking some buttons. Once you install the Google Earth brows...

• Names of kingdoms and more (Version 20)

  Posted on Wednesday May 28th, 2008 at 17:58

  Names of kingdoms have been added, along with the location of the bamboo grove in Rajagaha and King Bimbisara's Jail. Added some stupas and fixed the location of Kusinara. Thanks to Dhammajoti Bhikkhu for his assistance! I've added his name to the cr...

• Lots of updates (Version 19)

  Posted on Tuesday May 27th, 2008 at 22:28

  I just made a bunch of updates last night. (Please refresh the FotB folder if you haven't already.) A special thanks goes out to Ven. S. Dhammika for his personal assistance!Some of the things added or changed:Place markers that were associated with ...

• Logo Annoying?

  Posted on Monday May 26th, 2008 at 09:59

  I just made the overlay logo much smaller and it's hidden by default.Really the logo doesn't add too much value, except maybe remind you that the "layer" is active. I just added it because other similar KML files have logos and I was trying to make t...

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