Thursday, September 22, 2005
Views of Africa & Google Earth
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "SOFTWARE" @ 05:00 PM
"Have you ever dreamed of Africa while reading National Geographic? The exotic photographs and thoughtful articles take you there with a magical sense of place. Today we embraced that magic by releasing Google Earth data layers that index National Geographic stories, images, journals, and even a live webcam in Africa. Just start Google Earth, enable the National Geographic layers, and begin exploring."
I was just thinking about how wonderful the photographs from National Geographic and the merging of this with with a Google Earth or MSN Virtual Earth. Well, 92,000 of these wonderfully high res images about to make it to Google Earth (try a preview of them now by going to Africa on Google Earth and zooming in on the little red airplanes). And MSN is apparently going to jump on a similar product too. Cool stuff.
I was just thinking about how wonderful the photographs from National Geographic and the merging of this with with a Google Earth or MSN Virtual Earth. Well, 92,000 of these wonderfully high res images about to make it to Google Earth (try a preview of them now by going to Africa on Google Earth and zooming in on the little red airplanes). And MSN is apparently going to jump on a similar product too. Cool stuff.
