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Your average portrait painting isn’t very large or, in the case
of the Mona Lisa, it’s surprisingly tiny. That said, we have found
one or two giant portraits which are viewable from above.

To start, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank Anne
Frank can be seen painted on the playground of
Anne-Frank-Realschule, a German Six-form high school.

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Still in Germany, we can see a likeness of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart painted in chalk outside
Cologne Cathedral. I think someone should
head down there and put some money in the guy’s hat.

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Our
last portrait we have to admit isn’t actually a portrait
painting, but may well be a reproduction of one of
Picasso’s paintings through the medium of field.

I’ve found suggestion that the original is a portrait of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Thérèse_Walter Marie
Therese Walter but that might be a red herring, as I can’t find
any portraits of her that even resemble the field.

Can anyone do any better?

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Thanks: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=EarthHistory&Number=802352
Felippo, http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlfile26329/Mozart-portrait-at-Cologne-Cathedral.htm
sladys, JackW & Jane

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With high-resolution images all over the globe, Google Earth has
captured many sporting events actually in-progress, so
today we proudly present - The Top 10 different sports you
can actually see people playing on Google Earth!

As a bonus, we’ve tried to work out how each game is going, and
to make things even more difficult for ourselves, we’ve
limited our search to ballgames only.

10. First let’s look at the 2nd of the 18-hole

Las Vegas Country Club Golf Course, where we see the pin lying
on the grass and the person closest playing their putt. Everyone
else is standing around, probably telling him to hurry up.

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9. As the world’s most popular sport, there
must be hundreds of games of football being played at any one
second. Here we see students playing “the beautiful game” at the
University of Tokyo. However, this looks like it’s just a
practise session as there’s no goalie at either end.

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8. There’s people playing tennis http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/673561/an//page// vc/1
all over the globe but for the top 10 we’ve chosen these
two games of doubles being played on clay in Germany.

The eastern game is in full swing, and on the western court the
players are standing in their service positions, and judging from
the shadows it looks as if the southern team are about to
serve!

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7. There’s a good turnout for
Lawn Bowls at Bell Vue Park Bowling Green in Newport, Wales.
Sadly the bowls are just too small to be seen so we can’t tell how
the games are going.

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6. The stands are filling up at
Yankee stadium, and there’s a couple of people on the field,
but we’re a little too early for the game.

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Hmm, we’ll need another baseball game in progress…
here’s four!

In the thumbnail we see a batter up at the plate, and I think
the bases are loaded.

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5.
The Shay in Halifax, England is also used for football games,
but today it’s a home game for local rugby league team Halifax
RLFC.

The ball is probably somewhere in the west of the pitch and the
team to the north are on the offensive.

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4. They’re playing
lacrosse in Salamanca, New York. You can tell that it’s a men’s
game as there are 20 players on the pitch (women’s lacrosse would
have 24 players).

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3. Here is a
cricket match being played in the village of Hoylandswaine,
north of Sheffield. It looks like they’re between plays, as the
batsman has stepped back from the wicket to the west and we can see
the other batsman and the bowler at the eastern end.

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2. Here we see a packed gameday at
Seahawks Stadium (now Qwest field) with 63,588 people watching
the Nevada Wolf Pack at Washington State Cougars on August 31,
2002.

Google Earth Community member http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/72244/page/2/f part/2/vc/1#Post774828
GEChump managed to identify the exact play seen in the photo,
making this 11:37 remaining in the second quarter with the game
tied at 7.

The Cougars eventually went on to win 31-7.

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1. Finally, we find a tense one-on-one
street-Basketball game being played in Rolde, Netherlands. Due
to the left-hand player’s poor defence the right-hand player has
just taken a shot at the basket, however they’ve missed and the
ball is rebounding back.

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Have you found a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_Sports ball game on
Google Earth not mentioned here? Let us know!

Thanks: heamit, mike, Kegan, seamus, Jeff, John Culbert, Jeni,
Kristen, Mark, shuvman, http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/770876/Main/423207
vancantona, http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/505765/page/vc
silkobilko, http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/227394 Crebbin,
patmonahan, http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/373821 Majoska,
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/251753 pttech,
Adam Rus, Ian, Arlene and the Google Earth Community.

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Just after http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=721135
yesterday’s announcement of New Google Earth version 4 betas
the team have sneaked out another, as yet unannounced, imagery
update.

Although it’s not clear where has or hasn’t been updated it is
already clear that this is the best update EVER.
Why? This update includes recent high-resolution images from
Scotland’s capital city, and home of Google Sightseeing HQ,
Edinburgh!

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As usual the images haven’t made their way into Google Maps yet,
but I’m sure it won’t be long.

Update: The imagery update now been http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=722356
officially announced (along with a terrain update), here’s the
rundown:

Digital Globe updates all over the globe with the most notable
being large content additions in Somalia and Australia

Updated US states: Indiana and Delaware

Miscellaneous high res cities and counties in North America:
Monterey Bay, CA; Yakima County, WA; Summerland, Canada; Greater
East Wenatchee, WA; Polk County, IA; Warren County IA; and Bay
County, FL

Small high-res updates in the UK (Swansea, Edinburgh,
Doncaster, Gwent) and expanded London coverage

High-res update in Bremerhaven, Germany.

Newer imagery for Lanzarote (Canary Islands)

Google Earth Blog-supplied http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/10/wirefly_x_prize_cup_1.html
XPrizeCup flyover and the Sanford, NC airport

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Foo Camp @ O’Reilly Headquarters in Sebastapol, CA

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Posted by Rebecca Moore, Manager,
Google Earth Outreach

French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's beautiful images of
the planet have become a coffee table favorite across the world.
Today we are excited to present a new Google Earth layer of nearly
500 of his images, many taken from hot air balloons and all taken
from above the earth. Each image is paired with thought-provoking
statistics about the current environmental situation they depict.
The facts and figures were put together by href="http://www.goodplanet.org/" id="aqrr"
>GoodPlanet.org, Yann's non-profit
organization established to promote environmental awareness and
sustainable development.

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Posted by Rebecca Moore, Manager,
Google Earth Outreach

When Google Earth launched
two years ago, it was fun to see that many people around the world
used it to fly to their homes, navigate around their neighborhoods,
and explore the planet. But when, in September 2005, it was used to
rescue stranded victims in the aftermath of Katrina, we realized
that Google Earth had the potential to be a significant tool beyond
personal exploration. We began to see public-benefit KMLs created
for things like environmental protection and global public health.
A large number of non-profit groups started contacting us, asking
good questions: can Google Earth help us illustrate our projects in
a new and more compelling manner than text and slideshows? Are
there methods or tools for importing our existing data into Google
Earth? Can you tell us about any other non-profits who’ve been
successful at using GE to reach a new audience, raise awareness,
gain volunteers, inspire people into action, and create a tangible
impact?

We listened carefully and worked on this for more than a year, and
now, the answer is “Yes!” Today we're formally launching href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/index.html" >Google Earth
Outreach, a program designed to empower non-profit groups with
the resources, tools, and inspiration that they need to leverage
the power of Google Earth for their cause. This is where public
service groups can find online guides and video tutorials,
inspiring case studies and a gallery of high-quality,
public-benefit KML. We are offering free Google Earth Pro licenses
to qualified non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations. And the Earth
Outreach team is also moderating href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-earth-outreach/topics" >a
forum to foster discussion, exchange ideas, and give technical
support.

We're excited to see the birth of Google Earth Outreach, and
it's truly an honor for us to be able to support the critically
important work of these groups. As Dr. Jane Goodall said,
"Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we
help. With Google Earth Outreach, more people have the chance to
see, to care, and then to act."

Update: Here's some
video from our Google Earth Outreach event on Tuesday. Enjoy!

Tags: , Earth, google, manager, Moore, OutreachWhen, Posted, Rebecca

Posted by Steve Miller, Google Earth
Outreach

On October 13^th and 14^th, Googlers and many
people around the world will head out to clean up local parks,
beaches, trails and other places close to home. We'll be
planning our cleanups using href="http://maps.google.com/" >Google Maps and sharing our
plans with friends and families, along with an invitation to help.
So far, Googlers have sent in almost 100 cleanup maps and proposed
plans, and have invited more than 900 of their personal contacts to
help.

And since many small cleanups add up to one big impact, we hope
you'll join in too. It takes just a few minutes to plan your
own cleanup, make a map of it, and send your map to us — we'll
add it to a growing map of all the cleanups around the world. If
you keep your cleanup small (groups of 6-10 people work best) and
close to home, it'll be easy to organize and you can be sure
that you're doing what's most important for your
neighborhood. After your cleanup, share your work with the world by
posting photos and videos to your map.

If you'd like to join this global effort, you can href="http://maps.google.com/help/maps/cleanup/" >get started
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Posted by John Hanke, Director, Google
Earth and Google Maps

We got so excited around here about the first anniversary of Google
Earth that we decided to celebrate a bit early. Beginning today,
you can download a
brand new version, Google Earth 4. Running on OS X? Feel the
love. Prefer Linux? Ditto. Yes, we're releasing simultaneously
for PC, Mac (universal binary for full performance on both Intel
and PowerPC based Macs) and for the first time ever, native support
for popular Linux distributions. And we should say
"salut," "ciao," "hallo," and
"hola" to our French, Italian, German and Spanish users,
because Google Earth is now fully localized for those languages in
addition to English. This includes a UI localized to French,
Italian, German, and Spanish, as well as local search, driving
directions, geo-coding, and unique local information layers for
those countries.

Got data?
The streamlined new UI is bound to make you crave new places to
explore, so we put together a little update to our database — we
increased our global coverage by about 4X. Google Earth now covers
more than 20 percent of the landmass of the entire globe with
high-resolution satellite imagery (soon href="http://maps.google.com" >Google Maps will too). When we
say "high resolution," we mean the good stuff: you can
see cars, houses, buildings in more than 200 countries and
territories. Not every house is covered, only about two billion of
them. That's our best estimate, anyway — that about 1/3 of the
population of the Earth can now see their homes in high-resolution.
Google Earth has had medium resolution global satellite coverage
since the beginning. But that was at 15 meters per pixel. This new
global coverage was produced in conjunction with our exclusive
satellite partner, Digital Globe, and is at approximately 70 cm per
pixel. We have even better data for many countries, up to 10 cm per
pixel.

What global insights can this new data produce? Google Earth has
already helped save tsunami, hurricane, and earthquake victims, not
to mention find a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050912/full/050912-6.html" >lost
Roman villa, track href="http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/05/near_realtime_s.html" >
severe storms, discover href="http://www.astroseti.org/impacts.php" >new meteor craters,
track the outbreak of
avian flu, visually index href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/illuminated-continent.html" >
magazine articles and photos, host href="http://dsc.discovery.com/videogalleries/nationalparks/nationalparks.html" >
travel videos, redefine the href="http://www2.prupref.com/announce/google-earth.php" >house-shopping
process, track href="http://www.fboweb.com/antest/ge/intro.aspx" >airplanes in
flight, recognize every href="http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/05/memorial_day_me.html" >
Medal of Honor recipient, and many other uses we never
expected. Only time will tell what it will bring, and it will only
be fully realized when energetic and creative people use powerful
tools like KML to exploit the new data and features.

Why not KML in Maps?
We asked that too. href="http://earth.google.com/kml/kml_overview.html" >KML is
such an amazingly flexible way to create and share geographic
information - whether it's href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://kml.lover.googlepages.com/my-vacation-photos.kml" >
sharing vacation photos with your friends or publishing
important data like the href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/catalogs/eqs7day-age.kmz" >
realtime earthquake feed from the U.S. Geological Survey — we
thought it would be useful to be able to view KML in Google Maps.
So here it is! You can now view KML in Maps by entering the URL for
your KML file. To browse hundreds of thousands of interesting KML
files, see what the half million members of the href="http://bbs.keyhole.com/" >Google Earth Community have
created.

Feeling inspired?
Google SketchUp and href="http://www.sketchup.com/?id=1468" >Google 3D Warehouse
have enabled creative individuals around the world to model their
world in 3D. A href="http://sketchup.google.com/download.html" >new version of
SketchUp is available today that enables the export of
fully-textured 3D models to 3D Warehouse and Google Earth. This
will bring even more realism to the collectively-authored 3D world
SketchUp users are creating.

Ready to mashup?
Our legion of Maps API developers asked us to support href="http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/index.html#Geocoding_Examples" >
geocoding. So we decided to push that out today too.
Street-level geocoding is now available for the U.S., Canada,
Japan, France, Italy, Germany and Spain. Let the
mashing begin.
Correction: Street-level
geocoding is not available in Japan.

Are you enterprising?
Finally, now there's href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/maps/" >Google Maps for
Enterprise, offering a fee-based service and support for
businesses that want to embed a Google Maps experience in their
websites or internal applications. It leverages the href="http://www.google.com/apis/maps/" >Google Maps API to
enable businesses to map customer locations, track shipments,
manage facilities or view any other data source in a geographic
context.

Whew. I'm exhausted from writing all of that. Our first year
has been a busy one. We hope you enjoy these latest efforts in our
mission to geographically organize the world's information and
make it universally accessible and useful.

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Posted by Chikai Ohazama, Google Earth
Team

We feel like proud parents around here. Our eldest, Google Earth
for the PC, is officially leaving beta status today, and we
couldn't be more pleased. For those of you who downloaded
early, upgrade to the latest and discover Google Earth all over
again.

And we have a brand new member of the family — Google Earth for
Macintosh. We're happy to finally have some good news for the,
ahem, vocal Mac enthusiasts we've been hearing from. Let's
just say that we have gotten more than a few "requests"
for a Mac version of Google Earth. They've gone something like
this:

1) "When is it coming out? Your website says that you are
working on it."

2) "You know, Mac users are very heavy
graphics/mapping/visualization/design/ architecture/education/real
estate/geocaching/social-geo-video-networking fans who would
certainly use Google Earth a lot."

3) "So when is it coming out?"

We heard you loud and clear. The Mac version runs on OS X 10.4 and
up. Happy travels throughout href="http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html" >Google
Earth, whether you're on a Mac or a PC.

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Posted by Michael Jones, Google Earth
CTO

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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Posted by John Hanke, Director for
Maps, Earth and Local

I am pleased to tell you that we've agreed to purchase href="http://www.panoramio.com/" >Panoramio, a website based in
Spain that links millions of photos with the exact geographical
location where they were taken. ( href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/annc_panoramio.html" >
Our FAQ has all the details.)

Panoramio is a community photos website that enables digital
photographers to geo-locate, store and organize their photographs
– and to view those photographs in Google Earth. Other users can
search and browse Panoramio photos and suggest edits to the
metadata associated with the photos. Panoramio also offers an API
that enables web developers to embed Panoramio functionality into
their websites.

Those of you already using Google Earth have no doubt noticed
Panoramio's striking images documenting settings from all over
the world, like href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/901470" >moonscapes in
Croatia, href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1578881" >dramatic sunsets in
Australia, and innovative href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/91375" >architecture in the
United Arab Emirates.

We've been working with Panoramio for some time — its photos
have been a default layer in Google Earth since the beginning of
the year. This layer will remain in place as our teams work
together toward further integrating this amazing content, generated
by many, into our mapping technologies.

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