Please note you will need to have Google Earth installed on your PC in order to open the above file, and I highly recommend having Google Earth just for itself because it truly is a most incredible piece of software.
Before I started work on the animated timeline map project using Flash I was exploring the possibility of using Google Earth to do the same thing. I created a map that replaces the standard Earth map with a blank blue map onto which I placed the map of Westeros created by Tear and I also added the map of Slavers' Bay in roughly the location where it would be in relation to Westeros. Sadly I have no skills or knowledge in using KML (the language that Google Earth is programmed with) and so I determined that it was going to be better to use Flash which I have a better understanding of.
But I still think this map of Westeros in Google Earth is useful since you get a real sense of the scale and zooming low over the curvature of Westeros is pretty cool.
Please note that the position of Westeros in relation to its North/South axis is off because in order to avoid stretching the image too much I needed to align it with the centre of the globe. I left the borders around Westeros to show that this is a closed map at the moment.
The map of Slavers' Bay is currently the only official map showing any part of Essos that we have, but rumours strongly indicate that A Dance With Dragons will include a map of the Free Cities. I will be adding this to the Google Earth map when it is finally released. It is my hope that I can one day add a full map of Essos to both Google Earth and my animated timeline map so that we have a full picture of locations and events. Adding the free cities will be a big step in that direction.
UPDATE: New version of the Google Earth map now available including a new map of the Free Cities taken from a screenshot of HBO's Game of Thrones provided by Werthead. Please note that this is unofficial at this time and has not been confirmed. Also included in this update are amendments and additions to Tear's map of Westeros. Again many of these new locations are unofficial and are simply my best guess and therefore should not be taken as canon. The map can also be downloaded as a JPG image: [JPG, 1.36MB]
