seer
Master Chronicler
Reged: 12/09/02
Posts: 3107
Loc: Northern California
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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.
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Frank4
Master Blogger
Reged: 07/10/05
Posts: 1024
Loc: Cary, North Carolina, USA
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This is an awesome addition to your Primary Database! I've written about this at the Google Earth Blog.
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Frank Taylor - Author of Google Earth Blog (also available in Spanish)
All about Google Earth news, features, tips, technologies, and applications.
(If you have story ideas, please send me a private message.)
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reyfer
Tourist
Reged: 08/08/05
Posts: 23
Loc: Venezuela
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THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU specially for the Megaflyover
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Human knowledge belongs to mankind
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blt
Cartographer
Reged: 01/25/03
Posts: 638
Loc: Santa Cruz, Ca
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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
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or is it a mural ...
Thank you
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seer
Master Chronicler
Reged: 12/09/02
Posts: 3107
Loc: Northern California
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Do I see bicycles and riders on the left of the image that you posted?
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Be seeing you,
Seer
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seawind
Tourist
Reged: 09/03/05
Posts: 4
Loc: Port Hardy, BC
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Thank you for this. Brings back great memories of my years living in Tanzania.....
Patrick
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JakeInVan
Tourist
Reged: 07/29/05
Posts: 55
Loc: Vancouver, BC Canada
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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
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TommyAfrika
Master Cartographer
Reged: 06/01/05
Posts: 1905
Loc: Error 404. Please try again.
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Thank you !
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Ali_Bey
Tourist
Reged: 08/20/05
Posts: 8
Loc: Valladolid, Spain
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Muchas gracias, desde España. ¡Esto es poderio!: ¡Olé, toreros!.
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my_earth
Tourist
Reged: 08/31/05
Posts: 22
Loc: canada
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Are these pics taken from GE screen?
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