If you have Google Earth, you can now see Encyclopedia of Earth articles as you navigate the planet:

http://www.eoearth.org/eoe.kml

The backend code is pretty crude, but I believe that I have things serving up “streaming” KML data the way that Google Earth expects it.

We have just completed the rollout of substantial feature enhancements to the Encyclopedia of Earth. Some of the changes include:

• Substantially improved search
• Embedded interactive maps (courtesy of Google) in articles and search results
• More flexible support for additional metadata fields