An impressing Chrome Experiment

The WebGL Globe is an open platform for geographic data visualization created by the Google Data Arts Team.

The Globe can be moved around as expected.

Global Populatiom

More Information and how to make your own after the jump.

Cloud Globe

Cloud Globe is an interactive visualization of cloud data from July 1, 2010 to September 12, 2012. The imagery was compiled from an archive of hourly snapshots used to create the weather layer in Google Maps. To see current global cloud cover, visit Google Maps, turn on the Weather layer, then zoom out to the global view. Please note: at the time this visualization was created (September 2012), storm data was only available for 2010 and 2011.
Technology: WEBM: The images are combined together into a WEBM video, which is then wrapped around the globe. Google Cloud Storage: The WEBM video file is stored and accessed via Google's appropriately named scalable storage infrastructure. Google App Engine: The project code is hosted on Google's cloud computing platform. Data Sources: Cloud imagery provided by the Google Maps team and the US Naval Research Lab. Storm data provided by U.S. NOAA/National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in conjunction with the World Data Center for Meteorology at NCDC. Vegetation map provided by NASA Earth Observations. Boundary map derived from Wikipedia. Ocean current information provided by NOC.

For more interactive globe examples, visit WebGL

You can copy the code, add your own data, and create your own globes here.