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42 unusual facts about Google Earth


Awgu

The Catholic Cathedral is said to resemble a space ship when viewed with Google Earth.

Bank of Guyana

A 3D version, drawn by JungleManGeorge, of the Bank Of Guyana is also seen featured on Google Earth.

Bayreuth Altstadt–Kulmbach railway

(The coordinates in the text are for Google Earth and can be entered using cut and paste. The Drossenfeld–Kulmbach section is still shown as existing in Google Earth.)

Benjamin H. Bratton

His current work develops a political theory of planetary-scale computation and draws from disparate sources, from Paul Virilio, Michel Serres, and Carl Schmitt, to Alan Turing, Google Earth, and IPv6.

Bishungarh

Bishungarh village is located at 27degree 6min 43 sec N and 79degree 24minute 56sec E. On Google Earth search put Bishangarh for the location of the village.Local government directory has listed Bishungarh as Vishungarh and the village code is 1446687.

Chancellor Park, Essex

Google Earth's historical imagery feature shows that in 2000 much of the Chancellor Park area didn't exist, including much of the current housing, the Arrowhead Monument (created by Alan Threlfall), Chancellor Park Sports Area, Brook End Gardens or the Brookend Gardens Play Area.

Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant

(The Deepcore structure is visible in the pre-2007 Historical Imagery views on Google Earth.)

Documentary practice

Geoweb refers to virtual maps or "geobrowsers" such as Google Earth that allow users to search for images, texts, videos or other media content through interactive, photographic maps of the earth.

Extreme points of Malaysia

The coordinates used in this article are sourced from Google Earth, which makes use of the WGS84 geodetic reference system.

Fairfield College

These images were then captured by satellite and published on Google Earth.

Family tree mapping

Map My Ancestors(Note as of 3 Oct 2011 this application was withdrawn from sale and no longer available, due to closure of Yahoo Mapping services see the source site for details) - a Windows application that imports GEDCOM files or comma-separated values (CSV) files and converts them to keyhole markup language (KML) files for viewing with KML compatible programs such as Google Earth or Google Maps.

Viewing data is generally undertaken from within the program using the internal viewer but individual placemarks can be viewed using Google Earth, Google Maps, TerraServer-USA or MapQuest.

Farallon de Medinilla

Satellite imagery (e.g., Google Earth) of the island shows three X-shaped figures and one Y-shaped figure in its northern half, built out of metal shipping containers.

Hari Hari

This has resulted in confusion, and official Government Organizations and Internet sites World Wide, such as Google Earth not using the real town name.

Jewish Internet Defense Force

The group has sought to have Palestinian villages listed as having been destroyed during the foundation of Israel removed from Google Earth and has campaigned against the description of "Palestine" as a country.

Kiryat Yam

In February 2008, a Google Earth user added an erroneous note that Kiryat Yam had been built on the ruins of Arab Ghawarina, an abandoned Arab village.

Koutoubia Mosque

Even in the modern day, such restrictions are enforced by blocking Google Earth access to Moroccans.

Leicester and Swannington Railway

Viewing on Google Earth shows some clear grooves in the site where rails once ran.

Lesingham House

For an excellent aerial view of Lesingham House go to Google Earth and type in Lesingham House, NR14 7AL.

Lim Chu Kang

There are also side-roads, like Jalan Sungei Poyan, Lim Chu Kang Road Track 11/13 and Jalan Bahtera, and including roads that are not listed on Street Directory but on Google Earth satellite imagery (due to MINDEF secrecy, such as the old Kampong Berih Road).

Lost City of Z

Using Google Earth, three scientists may have found the lost city in the upper Amazonian basin, near the Brazilian-Bolivian border.

Mansface Hill

Google Earth and most GPS maps identify the road to the summit on the west side as "Knotty Pine Street."

Map My Ancestors

Map My Ancestors is an application for converting GEDCOM files produced by genealogy software into Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files for viewing with KML-compatible programs such as Google Earth or Google Maps.

Maritime Safety and Security Information System

Through MSSIS, participating governments can view real-time AIS data from around the world in a wide range of geographic display options, including text, photo overlays, electronic charts, and Google Earth.

Mini-map

Similar to custom layers in Google Earth, some team-oriented multi-player games, such as Age of Empires II or Empire Earth, allow players to draw temporary lines, signals or markings on the mini-map for others to see.

Museo del Prado

In 2009, the Prado Museum selected 14 of its most important paintings to be displayed in Google Earth and Google Maps at extremely high resolution, with the largest displayed at 14,000 megapixels.

Nazareth Speedway

Historical Google Earth imagery shows that by May 2008, large piles of earth were erected at various points around the track to prevent use of the racing surface.

Our Dumb World

Elements of the book have been transferred to an electronic format available on the paper's website and as a layer on Google Earth.

Project Vulcan

In addition to the data release, establishment of the Vulcan website and a press release, a video of various aspects of atmospheric transport was released on Purdue University’s YouTube website and portions of the Vulcan inventory are available on Google Earth.

RAF High Wycombe

There is a large bunker at the site near, the existence of which is officially classified, but which nevertheless is clearly visible on satellite photographs (e.g. Google Earth).

Ryan C. Gordon

He has also been involved in porting several non-gaming products such as Google Earth.

Severouralsk Airport

Google Earth satellite imagery suggests that the original runway length was 2000 meters.

Shamsi Airfield

In February 2009, The Times (London) claimed that it had obtained Google Earth images from 2006 that showed Predator drones parked outside a hangar at the end of the runway at Shamsi.

Shark net

They can be clearly picked out on Google Earth - at 22^14'38" North, 114^11'26" East, see "Repulse Bay".

Stand Up!!

However, if one compares the scene to a real satellite view of the same area (using, for example, Google Earth), it is clear that, although there actually is a school at exactly that location, it's not the one we see in the opening.

Suislepa Airfield

Some remains of runways and taxiways can be seen on Google Earth satellite imagery.

Taregana

Average elevation from sea level is 61 meters as per Google Earth.

Teviotville Tree

As of March 2012, a view of this location on Google Earth still shows many vehicles and temporary buildings associated with the film production.

The Third of May 1808

In 2009, the Prado selected The Third of May 1808 as one of the museum's fourteen most important paintings, to be displayed in Google Earth at a resolution of 14,000 megapixels.

Tiarajudens

Paleontologists found the location using satellite photographs from Google Earth.

Western Heights, Waikato

Google Earth maps highlight the area as the most clearly defined block to Hamilton's west.

Wordwell

Google Earth shows the outlines of buildings that once stood on the other side of the road.


ArchiCAD

Some of these extensions are developed by Graphisoft, such as the freely available Google SketchUp, Google Earth or Cinema 4D import/export add-ons or other extensions sold separately such as Graphisoft MEP Modeler, Graphisoft EcoDesigner or Graphisoft Virtual Building Explorer; while there are a number of add-ons provided by third party vendors, such as Cigraph or Cadimage.

DigiKam

Using plug-ins, users can export albums to various online services including (among others) 23hq, Facebook, Flickr, Gallery2, Google Earth's KML files, Yandex.Fotki, MediaWiki, Rajce, SmugMug, Piwigo, Simpleviewer, Picasa Web Albums.

Google Crisis Response

Google also builds and provides tools to help crisis responders and affected people communicate and stay informed, such as Google Person Finder, Google Crisis Map, Google Public Alerts, Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Fusion Tables, Google Docs, and Google Sites.

Google Earth Flight Simulator

Google Earth flight simulator, a flight simulator integrated into Google Earth and created by Google

Intelligent Systems Challenge

The Challenge problem for 2009, titled Protecting Canada's Coastal Border, was proposed by MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), the aerospace and financial products company that built the Canadarm, Radarsat-2 and image processing systems used for Google Earth.

Transims

Visualization tools that are commonly used include the original TRANSIMS visualizer, fourDscape and the Balfour (software) visualizer, ArcGIS and similar GIS tools, Google Earth and NASA World Wind, Advanced Visualization (NCSA), and NEXTA.

Virtual globe

Google Earth, satellite & aerial photos dataset (including commercial DigitalGlobe images) with international road dataset, the first popular virtual globe along with NASA World Wind.

The first widely publicized online virtual globes were NASA World Wind (released in mid-2004) and Google Earth (mid-2005).