Visitors to Google Earth put Nanaimo on map
HAYLEY MICK AND SIRI AGRELL
From Monday's Globe and Mail
August 6, 2007 at 5:24 AM EDT
Have you ever wondered what the view is like from the rooftop of the Beacon Tower in Nanaimo, B.C.?
Would you like to know if there is a man selling hot dogs at the corner of Commercial and Wharf Streets in the Vancouver Island city's picturesque downtown?
Visitors to Google Earth can inspect almost every square centimetre of the city of 80,000, which has become the world's most active supplier of geographic data to the mapping search engine service from the U.S. portal site.
The site allows people to zoom in on satellite imagery of city landmarks, arriving ferries and even local bus routes and view them as it they are flying overhead.
“Everything you could imagine that the city government would want to tell people, they seem to have found a way to tell that using Google Earth,” said Michael Jones, chief technical officer at Google Earth. “We see other cities around the world doing this, but none with the degree and zeal of Nanaimo.”
About 100 cities are providing detailed information to Google Maps,
http://tinyurl.com/2gmhol
HAYLEY MICK AND SIRI AGRELL
From Monday's Globe and Mail
August 6, 2007 at 5:24 AM EDT
Have you ever wondered what the view is like from the rooftop of the Beacon Tower in Nanaimo, B.C.?
Would you like to know if there is a man selling hot dogs at the corner of Commercial and Wharf Streets in the Vancouver Island city's picturesque downtown?
Visitors to Google Earth can inspect almost every square centimetre of the city of 80,000, which has become the world's most active supplier of geographic data to the mapping search engine service from the U.S. portal site.
The site allows people to zoom in on satellite imagery of city landmarks, arriving ferries and even local bus routes and view them as it they are flying overhead.
“Everything you could imagine that the city government would want to tell people, they seem to have found a way to tell that using Google Earth,” said Michael Jones, chief technical officer at Google Earth. “We see other cities around the world doing this, but none with the degree and zeal of Nanaimo.”
About 100 cities are providing detailed information to Google Maps,
http://tinyurl.com/2gmhol
