« Tahina Expedition Announces Partnership with VideoRay | Main | Submarine Sim for Google Ocean »

April 14, 2009

Great Lakes Under Water Features Added To Google Earth

Google not only added new imagery and new 3D terrain during the past few days, but also the Great Lakes underwater terrain to Google Earth 5. They announced the Great Lakes coverage at the LatLong blog today. The Great Lakes data was created by NOAA and they've created a narrated GE 5 Tour which you can watch right here:


Posted by FrankTaylor at April 14, 2009 12:20 PM

Sponsored Ads:



Comments

Cool, I hope they'll do this to other lakes as well... Places like Lake Bajkal, Crater Lake and most (very deep) big lakes in New Zealand should be pretty cool to explore. I think the IJsselmeer in the Netherlands was the only lake in the first ocean update that had sub-surface rendering.

Posted by: dapascha at April 14, 2009 12:58 PM

My family spent a lot of summers on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan, about 30 miles west of Mackinaw Island. My dad had a knack for hitting sand bars and other underwater obstacles with the boat. If only we had Google Earth back then, our vacations may have been a lot less expensive. 8)

Posted by: baby stuff for sale at May 3, 2009 3:47 PM

The other Great Lakes, those of the western Rift in Africa, are subjects of international research interest in tectonics and, together with the other rift branches in the region, represent the various stages in continental brekkup, precursor to the birth of a new ocean. These lakes are very deep, L. Tanganyika being 1,400m deep, and all of them have floors that are intensely faulted. While they are amagmatic, they often exhibit high hest flow. It would be of great help to the international scentific community to be able to map the underwater geologic structures of lakes Malawi, Tanganyika, Kivu, Edward and Albert as well asd L. Turkana on the Ethiopia-Kenya border.

Posted by: Getahun Demissie at December 30, 2009 1:33 PM

The water features are a great way to add beauty to your homes and offices. Your landscaping view is incomplete without any water feature installed either at workplace or at home.

Posted by: sem at June 13, 2010 12:09 AM

Great! It is nice to know that the water features are added to Google Earth. Water feature is a contributing factor in making a garden look beautiful and awesome. Having a nice landscape design catches the attention of the people.

Posted by: Jack Gardener at November 1, 2011 10:11 AM

Post a comment:

NOTE: Please use English. Comments are moderated.




Remember Me?




  • Google Earth Blog © 2005-2012 Copyright by Frank Taylor. All Rights Reserved.
  • All image screenshots from Google Earth are Copyright by Google