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Posted by Michael Jones, Google Earth
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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.

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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.

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