A couple of new tools

The first tool is called gCensus. It is designed for Google Earth and lets you query through census data and outputs a .kmz file. Pretty helpful if you want to display census data for counties in the U.S. fast. The next tool is EarthPlot. It’s designed to create post, contour, trajectory, graduated symbol, raster image, and spider plots in Google Earth.

I also found this website. It let’s you map out your RSS feeds and continuously updates them. It let’s you embed the RSS map as an active wallpaper or even embed it into you own blog. However, this app has plenty of bug issues. First, the news is stale, the only news I’ve seen is 10 days or older. Secondly, there is a problem with searching for tags within feeds in the personalize feed directory, you can’t narrow down the search to a particular feed within the entire RSS feed (like Google News - Baseball etc…). There are also problems with importing feeds that the site doesn’t currently monitor (you are supposed to be able to import a feed if  it’s not monitored). They should also allow you to have more than 5 RSS feeds. Who can narrow their RSS feeds down to just 5 feeds? I feel the main problem is that the creator of this app doesn’t seem to be addressing any of these problems and pretty much turning this app into abandonware. Nonetheless it is(was?) a cool idea and would love to see someone come up with working version of something like this.