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April 03, 2008
New Greenpeace Layer in Google Earth
Google has just added a new layer under the Global Awareness layer folder by the environmental activist organization: Greenpeace. The layer in Google Earth is focused on the climate and forests. I discovered this because of the Preview sublayer in the Geographic Web layer - the Greenpeace icons are quite noticeable. Then I discovered that this new layer was announced by Google Earth's Outreach Director Rebecca Moore in Hamburg Germany thanks to a blog post by Brian Fit.
The video in the placemark found in southwest Argentina showing a glacier is a really cool commercial by a guy who ages as he talks and the glacier behind him melts. You can see it here on YouTube. Also, one of the placemarks has a photo of a bunch of naked people - I'm not kidding!
Posted by FrankTaylor at April 3, 2008 11:10 AM
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Posted by: d at April 6, 2008 01:13 PM
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Hi Frank,
I was just wondering how does google decide on what layers they accept? Or can anyone just upload a layer so it's available for everyone to see or is it not that easy?
Thank you.