Posted by Matt in November 14th, 2008 |
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A new innovation for Google Earth promises time travel to 4th century Rome. Great effort was expended to render the ancient buildings in 3D — the results, though, are mixed.
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See Ancient Rome in 3D
Exploring Old Rome Without Air (or Time) Travel
Ancient Rome 3D, as the new feature is known, is a digital [...]
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Posted by Matt in July 21st, 2008 |
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These days even Indiana Jones might think twice about packing his trusty trowel and theodolite for some fieldwork in southern Afghanistan. But guerrillas and foreign armies are no obstacle for archaeologists who are using Google Earth to identify hundreds of new sites. They have also drawn up plans of more than 45 known but previously [...]
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Posted by Matt in April 9th, 2008 |
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A new partnership between the UN refugee agency and Google allows users of the powerful Google Earth search tool to track refugees in global conflict regions. By Patrick McGroarty more…
Baghdad’s Refugees: Trapped in the Green Zone
UN Representative in Somalia: ‘They Are Dying in Our Arms’
Exploiting Thailand’s Burmese Refugees: The Children of the Mae Sot Dump
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Posted by Matt in January 27th, 2008 |
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Get airborne with the astonishingly realistic flight simulator hidden away in Google Earth
Most people have heard of Google Earth, the interactive world map that cleverly mashes satellite photography, 3-D graphics and internet data. Few, however, have fully explored it.
Did you know, for example, that it contains an amazingly realistic secret flight simulator? Or that you [...]
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Posted by Matt in January 20th, 2008 |
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Gone are the days of a fearless Indiana Jones battling through the jungle in search of ancient treasures. Today’s archaeologists are using high-tech tools – from NASA satellites to Google Earth – to do the hard work for them.
In 2005 the Internet search company Google launched its virtual globe Google Earth constructed from satellite images [...]
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Posted by Matt in November 28th, 2007 |
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Don’t just zoom in on your back garden – discover 10 hidden secrets in the amazing Google Earth.To find out how to create your own virtual tours, search the stars, master the flight simulator, share your photos with the world and model your house in 3D, read the Hidden Power of Google Earth feature in [...]
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Posted by Matt in November 7th, 2007 |
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The Sunlight Foundation released a map of where nearly 1,500 2008 House defense earmarks are going. The map uses Google Earth to pinpoint each earmark’s destination and includes data on its recipient and dollar value. All told, 2008 defense earmarks (money lawmakers direct to individual projects) total over $5.1 billion with the largest [...]
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Posted by Matt in October 25th, 2007 |
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Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip are using Google Earth to select targets in Israel for rocket attacks.
Google Earth, the internet site which provides detailed satellite maps of the world, has come under fire in the past for allegedly aiding Islamic militants.
A failed September 2006 attack on oil facilities in Yemen was reportedly planned with [...]
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Posted by Matt in October 5th, 2007 |
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Remembering this, I set out to discover if there happened to be any high-resolution images on Google Earth around the area where the Israeli air strikes reportedly took place. The London Times story purported to offer some clues:
An audacious raid on a Syrian target 50 miles from the Iraqi border was [...]
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Posted by Matt in October 5th, 2007 |
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Actually, Israel’s one of many countries – around 130 – that were covered by the Google Earth update, but it appears to be most affected. As posted on Monsters and Critics, “Google Earth’s upgraded archive of satellite pictures exposes key Israeli military and security sites, the Israeli Yediot Ahronot daily reported Friday, warning it [...]
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