Hockey Arenas on Google Earth

BOULDER, Colorado -- While fiddling around on Google Earth Community, I found this incredible layer featuring nearly every hockey arena on earth. There are over 1,200 arenas in this database, which was created by a French fan of the Montpellier Vipers.

The layer was first posted to the French hockey site hockeyarchives.com, which is a pretty good resource on European (not Russian) hockey, provided you speak French, which I do exceedingly poorly. New York Times blogger Jeff Klein wrote this piece about the layer, which is called the World Ice Hockey Arenas Project.

Unfortunately, this layer does not show any of the world's bandy stadiums. So what I've done is created a layer that includes the geographic locations of all the hockey and bandy arenas I've been to, and each is linked to a ticket stub from each of those places. That should be posted soon on Google Earth Community.