Benno RIDDERHOF
(Vu University Amsterdam/MBB, The Netherlands)
Abstract: Thanks to the development of internet applications more and more digital tools have become available for the archeologist to present his material. New app are developed every year and it is now possible to walk with your phone in the center of an old city and view it as it could have been in the middle-ages, Roman times etc. One of the most important and popular tools is Google Earth. It allows the user to copy maps and use them in their research. It also allows the archaeologist to place information on the world map of Google earth and present them on the internet or in publications and papers. However, everyone who is using Google earth is using their own guidelines, there is no manual. This has led to an indiscriminate accumulation of presented data. Some is good, some is unclear and some is not usable. This introduction gives a summary of the possibilities and traps of Google earth, so that it can be used as a starting point for the roundtable
Keywords: google earth knowledge, digital tool