Google Earth Community: Data Announcement, UPDATE: Pakistan

Post of the Day: The Earth from Above by Rednick. (A beautiful homage to Arthus Bertrand).

GOOGLE EARTH NEWS:
(October 14th) Google Earth is now hosting updated Pakistan earthquake-area imagery for rescue workers and concerned families. See the latest satellite data from our partner Digital Globe in the Baffa and Mansehra areas and locations near Islamabad and Rawalpindi by clicking on these links. These data-indexing placemarks will help you explore and understand the area of the recent, tragic earthquakes. Click on the dot closest to your area of concern and then click in the pop-up balloon to download an image of that area. Remember to close older images when opening new ones.

On a lighter note, explore the fascinating and informative literary location post from community member H21.

Today (September 16th) we have published a large collection of high-resolution imagery updates and have also initiated a new significant element of Google Earth -- data layers that index content from National Geographic Magazine about the continent of Africa.

National Geographic Content

Feature stories and images
500 Megaflyover scenes
Sights & Sounds multimedia content
Live WildCam in Botswana

Global Imagery Updates

Very High Resolution Areas
Jacksonville, FL 2004; Los Angeles, CA 2003; Oxnard, CA 2004;Tampa/St.Petersburg 2002

New High-Resolution Areas
Wilmington, NC; Myrtle Beach, SC; Quito, Ecuador; Caracas, Venezuela; La Paz, Bolivia; Canary Islands; Brussels, Belgium; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Belgrade, Serbia; Vilnius, Lithuania; Riga, Latvia; Kiev, Ukraine; Mumbai, India; Bangalore, India; Hyderabad, India; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Hiroshima, Japan; Kobe, Japan; Osaka, Japan; Kyoto, Japan; Nagoya, Japan; Sapporo, Japan; Shanghai, China; Saertu, China; Havana, Cuba; Harare, Zimbabwe; Liverpool, UK; Portsmouth, UK; Middlesborough/Hartlepool, UK; Darwin, Australia

Updated or Additional Coverage Areas
Nashville, TN; Quebec, Canada; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Venice, Italy; Milan, Italy; Birmingham, UK; Plymouth, UK; Dublin, Ireland; Frankfurt, Germany; Vienna, Austria; Warsaw, Poland; Ankara, Turkey; New Delhi, India; Taipei, Taiwan; Seoul, South Korea; Pyongyang, North Korea; Stockholm, Sweden; Cape Town, South Africa;

Google Earth Community

A new forum, National Geographic Content, has been created for placemarks and discussions about the content in the National Geographic layers. This is the place for placemarks of that ibex or hippo that you may be the first to discover!

Enjoy!

For Katrina information go: here (latest images) and here (damage analysis.)

Edited by seer (10/30/05 05:34 AM)