I just posted a bunch of videos to YouTube yesterday of skating down the boardwalk in Newport Beach. Maybe one day they'll show up in Google Earth. That's because Google Earth is now showing video clips that have been geotagged to particular areas, according to Google's LatLong Blog.

To find them, click Featured Content in the Layers panel. Little YouTube logos will light up on the map (if you don't see them, make sure the YouTube box is checked within Featured Content).

What's unclear is how exactly the videos are selected. When I zoom in on Newport Beach, the videos I uploaded (and geotagged for the area) don't show. Instead, there are only about a dozen or so clips.

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