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National Geographic Data Layers
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This Google-hosted forum is for placemarks and discussions about content in the National Geographic data layers. The ideas and opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the National Geographic Society. (However we do aspire to be so insightful and erudite in our posts here that the NGS will be proud of this forum and its association with Google Earth.)
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The Illuminated Continent
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.
Across Africa, you will see the familiar yellow National Geographic logo. Zoom in to see the title of each feature article or photograph. Click the icon and a pop-up balloon shows a photo and description along with links to the content. Follow those links to read the entire story right where it happened. Not only will you learn about Jane Goodall's Fifi, you'll see her home. Joining the stories and images are layers for National Geographic Sights & Sounds multimedia resources, a live WildCam in Botswana, and a collection of Mike Fay's Megaflyover images.
The Megaflyover images are stunning. Mike spent more than a year taking 92,000 high resolution photographs of the continent. That project is described in Tracing the Human Footprint, an article in the September 2005 National Geographic. He selected 500 of his favorite scenes of people, animals, geological formations, and signs of human presence and annotated them in Google Earth. Look for the red airplane icons as you fly over Africa. Each of these marks a spot where a high resolution image awaits your own personal voyage.
| Frank4 |
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| 09/17/05 11:52 AM |
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This is an awesome addition to your Primary Database! I've written about this at the Google Earth Blog.
| reyfer |
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| 09/17/05 05:26 PM |
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THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU specially for the Megaflyover
| blt |
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| 09/17/05 08:30 PM |
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THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU specially for the Megaflyover
My feelings exactly. I can see the real world now .. It's a painting
.or is it a mural ...
Thank you
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| 09/17/05 08:34 PM |
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Pedal power
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Do I see bicycles and riders on the left of the image that you posted?
| seawind |
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| 09/18/05 02:46 AM |
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Thank you for this. Brings back great memories of my years living in Tanzania.....
Patrick
| JakeInVan |
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| 09/18/05 08:12 AM |
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Here is a market with a ton of bikes. It looks like there are replacement inner tubes for sale as well.
Jake
| TommyAfrika |
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| 09/18/05 10:58 AM |
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O-U-T-S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G !!!
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Thank you !
| Ali_Bey |
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| 09/19/05 06:14 AM |
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Muchas gracias, desde España. ¡Esto es poderio!: ¡Olé, toreros!.
| my_earth |
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| 09/20/05 07:33 AM |
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Are these pics taken from GE screen?
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| 09/20/05 03:50 PM |
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yes, fly down below the airplanes.
P.S. Anybody find the lions yet?
| my_earth |
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| 09/20/05 09:20 PM |
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Thanks to Google and National Geography Society.
Nobody can ignore the role of National Geography Society in creating, documentary films, images and information about our planet. For more than one century NGS have been presenting the information about our environment, nations and cultures. So I believe we would miss something if there were no NGS’s footprints on GE’s screen. This was a great and amazing feature that comes true by this association I wish it were expanded to other continents
| danfrank |
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| 09/20/05 10:48 PM |
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I am a Biology student at UNAM in Mexico city, Mexico. I am really curious about this area and everything attached to it. For instance, I do not understand how can I load this feature to my Google Earth. Anybody wish to help?
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| 09/20/05 11:06 PM |
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It is there now. Just make sure the National Geographic layers are enabled (near the top of the Layers menu) and the fly to Africa and have a look.
| sudads |
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| 09/21/05 05:43 AM |
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Google Earth keep improving and improving one of the best educational tools on the web, The addition of the National Geographic keyhole is awsome, I hope the National geographic has plans to expanded to other continents
Thanks
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| 09/21/05 02:34 PM |
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Danfrank,
Welcome to the BBS and Google Earth.
| lilPrincess |
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| 09/28/05 12:20 AM |
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National Geographic Data Layers
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WOW , woo hoo, I downloaded it and didn't know how to use until now. I Just Love all the Learning National Geographic Data Layers Have!
| Srikanth457 |
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| 10/09/05 02:09 AM |
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can u give me the avtivation code
| Draconian |
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| 10/10/05 07:31 AM |
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My NGS placemarks
A group of interesting placemarks which include people, animals and vehicles visible in many of the National Geographic Society images. This is a small attempt at reducing the cluttered view of our beautiful planet by consolidating my posts.
| Draconian |
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| 10/10/05 09:00 AM |
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A Dump Truck full of ore can be seen kicking up a cloud of dust as it drives through an abandoned mine.
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| 10/10/05 12:16 PM |
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??? The personal-use version needs no activation code.
| esterrett |
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| 10/10/05 12:28 PM |
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This is a small attempt at reducing the cluttered view of our beautiful planet by consolidating my posts.
That's great, as long as you remember to delete any that you've posted previously.. otherwise you've just duplicated them all..
| JMichaelFay_LindseyHolm |
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| 11/27/05 05:11 PM |
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This is a truck full of rock for gravel crusher that is now operating in mine, but not mining, I believe. I took the picture and think this is what we are seeing. Megamike
| Jumble |
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| 11/27/05 08:48 PM |
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A repeated brief word of "WELCOME" to new user jmichaelfay!!
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THE NGS FORUM AND THE NGS LAYER SUCH A VALUABLE EXPERIENCE FOR US ALL!!
Your willingness to share your spectacular photographs and to display them in this our favorite medium,GE, is a service that is appreciated beyond measure!!
And now you have arrived here in person, hopefully to enjoy the GE experience and to add to our understanding of your great work!
Thanks so much from us all!!
| bigbully |
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| 12/17/05 06:50 AM |
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hi this is sharath frm ind..
i somehow dont understand how the high resolution pics that some members of the google earth community have posted in this website..if i try to go down to a height of 75 ft in my google earth ..nothin appears..is that available only in google earth pro..pls clarify this..reply to my e mail: grsharath@rediffmail.com
thanks..
| Kempster |
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| 12/17/05 09:12 AM |
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Welcome to the Google Earth Community!
To answer your last question: all products (free, Plus, and Pro) use the same database. Meaning there is not more high-resolution with the Pro product. The Pro product has more tools (such as measure area and circles, and a movie maker) than the free product has.
Please read Understanding Google Earth Resolution Differences to learn about high-resolution imagery. Places in Africa where you can zoom-in to 70 feet is a very small amount of the data, and is provided by the National Geographic Society.
Let me know (privately, via a private message) if you have any questions!
| Square |
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| 01/26/06 07:34 PM |
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Such a wonderful coverage of the most beautiful (and sadly poor) part of the world! Kudos to you guys!
| 911chief |
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| 03/18/06 07:08 AM |
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Don't think its all that abandoned, checkout the front end scoop loader to the bottom left of the truck. Also, two parked cars in front of the buildings to the south and some people outside. Someone is still working that mine.
JVH
| Frank4 |
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| 04/08/06 08:09 AM |
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If you read the National Geographic placemark for the mine here, it says the mine closed two years ago. So, I guess it is abandoned now, just not in the photo.
| ashishearth |
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| 06/09/06 02:53 AM |
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Hi,
This is Ashish frm India.I would lik to thanks you giving kind of infiormation.Can you please send me something different that u research and with National geographic.so please send me.
Thanks & Regards,
Ashish
| PriceCollins |
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| 11/13/06 12:55 AM |
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jmichaelfay,
When high-resolution DigitalGlobe imagery is inserted behind the "Africa Megaflyover" images, misalignments become apparent. The images have been made a part of the basic imagery which is presented, whether or not the Megaflyover icon layer be active. So, a new misalignment category has been created in THIS POSTING.
It is hoped that the support staff can review and adjust the Megaflyover images when high-resolution images are added behind the Megaflyover images.
| JMichaelFay_LindseyHolm |
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| 11/20/06 11:35 AM |
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Yes I know, as the new imagery becomes available we are adjusting image overlay. Just the nature of the relatively low tech methods I used which meant that we only have a most recent GPS point for photos as we pass over at 120 knots at various angles. Nature of the beast kind of thing.
M
| nutscode |
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| 12/08/06 02:23 AM |
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Deer Seer,
I was wondering if this would be a usefull idea for a datalayer, collect all information available on thermoregulating tools in nature and put it on the right spot on the globe. This should stimulate the respect we should have for the highly advanced survival techniques used by animals. Best proof is the succes of "the march of the pinquins", masters in thermoregulation.
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded....SID=#Post710648
Greetings,
Arno
Nutscode
| picboyjs |
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| 12/28/06 06:33 AM |
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There is another pile of bikes in the corner of the picture nearest to the placemark.
| Tim_Schultz |
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| 01/20/07 08:12 AM |
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Hi everyone,
I've just updated to the newest version of GE (4.0.2722) and I thought new users might like to know that the National Geographic data layer is buried in "Featured Content" now...so it may take a couple clicks for the layer to become visible.
Cheers, Tim
| enous |
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| 12/19/07 06:51 PM |
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oh...
Its beautiful
| kazseux |
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| 01/09/08 02:01 PM |
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Google Earth Resolution -
Places in Africa where you can zoom-in to 70 feet is a very small amount of the data, and is provided by the National Geographic Society.
Of course this begs the question of when the resolution of all GE images will be this good. Any predictions? Anybody?
It's not bad enough that we have to see the giant gap in resolution quality between Indiana and most of most other states (like Michigan and kentucky), but now we are being tuanted with these extra-hi-res NGS pics. You know it's only going to spoil us.
WE WANT HI-RES! WE WANT HI-RES! WE WANT HI-RES!
| Hill |
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| 01/11/08 08:23 PM |
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Of course this begs the question of when the resolution of all GE images will be this good. Any predictions? Anybody?
Never ... ok - never say never - well, probably not for a very long time. The cost would be prohibitive. Those NatGeo pictures were taken from a small low flying plane. The surface area of the Earth (land only - forget about the oceans - is about 57,000,000 square miles.) And if resolution were that good, then eveyone would complain that the pictures were all 50 years old because it would take a verrrrry long time to photograph the earth's surface at those resolutions before starting all over again.
| Barnstormer66 |
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| 02/01/08 05:22 PM |
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.. ...The surface ares[sic] of the Earth (land only - forget about the oceans is about 57,000,000 square miles.) And if resolution were that good, then eveyone would complain that the pictures were all 50 years old because it would take a verrrrry long time to photograph the earth's surface at those resolutions before starting all over again.
A Wise old man, when asked, "But how does one eat an elephant? He is so large!!"
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Bite
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Dang You Imageshack!! 
| loferman |
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Hey its awesome,, I will search more on Gearth about it.
Its really very good.