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.)
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.
This is an awesome addition to your Primary Database! I've written about this at the Google Earth Blog.
-------------------- 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.)
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
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?
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
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.
-------------------- "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
Quote: 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..
-------------------- The Schutzstaffel (German for "Protective Squadron"), abbreviated SS, grew from a small paramilitary unit to an elite force that served as the Führer's "Praetorian Guard," the Nazi Party's "Shield Squadron" and a force with as much political influence as the regular German armed forces. Built upon the Nazi racial ideology, the SS, under Heinrich Himmler's command, was primarily responsible for the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis during the Second World War.
"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." Barack Obama - 10/30/2008
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
-------------------- On Sept 3rd 2007 Lindsey Holm and I set off on a walk of the entire range of the redwood tree . Leaving from the southern reaches of the old growth gallery forests of Big Sur, 333 days and 1500 miles later, on July 29th we reached the northernmost redwood tree in southern Oregon on the Chetco River. Over the coming months we will have thousands of georeferenced photos to display.
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!!
-------------------- There are none so blind......
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..
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!
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.
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.
-------------------- 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.)
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.
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.
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
-------------------- On Sept 3rd 2007 Lindsey Holm and I set off on a walk of the entire range of the redwood tree . Leaving from the southern reaches of the old growth gallery forests of Big Sur, 333 days and 1500 miles later, on July 29th we reached the northernmost redwood tree in southern Oregon on the Chetco River. Over the coming months we will have thousands of georeferenced photos to display.
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.
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