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Tour Builder: Tell your stories with Google Earth
November 11, 2013
As we’ve worked with veterans and their family members on projects like
Map The Fallen
and
VetNet
, we’ve heard many amazing stories and seen how helpful storytelling can be. So we thought it might be useful to make a very simple storytelling tool. One hallway conversation led to a joint project between the Google Creative Lab and
Google Earth Outreach
, and today, in honor of Veterans Day, we’re excited to share
Tour Builder
—a simple tool for recording and sharing stories on a map.
Though originally inspired by veterans, we quickly realized that Tour Builder has the potential be a simple, useful tool for any aspiring storyteller. You could be a high school history teacher explaining the
geography of the Revolutionary War
, a musician updating your fans
from the road
, or a grandmother who wants to share her
family’s story of service in WWII
.
Creating a tour is easy: give it a name, add an introduction photo and a quick description. Then search the map for where your story begins and drop a placemark. Describe each place and embed photos & videos as you guide people through your story. You can dive into Street View or pick the perfect 3D view to show off your adventure.
For inspiration, just
download Google Earth
and explore our
Gallery
, which showcases some incredible journeys that have already been created using Tour Builder:
Elizabeth O’Herrin’s story
of service in the Air National Guard from Wisconsin to Afghanistan and back.
The veterans of
Team Rubicon
who deploy emergency response teams following natural disasters like the Haiti earthquake
Dr. Jane Goodall's multi-generational saga
of the chimpanzee “G Family” and how her Institute is protecting endangered chimpanzees with high-tech tools
BRAC
’s efforts spreading anti-poverty solutions in 11 countries through the 100,000+ people they employ worldwide.
We invite you to try Tour Builder, and share your memories and stories with the people you love. Let us know what you think—we’d love to hear your ideas and feedback at
tourbuilder-team@google.com
for how Tour Builder could be a better storytelling tool and we’d love to see your tours.
Happy Veterans Day and thank you to all of the service members and military families, past and present, whose stories of service, patriotism, survival and achievement inspire us all.
Posted by Sean Askay, Google Earth Outreach, and Carrie Laureno, Google Creative Lab & Google Veterans Network
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