Content from new partners, including videos, photos and blogs, is coming to the maps on Google Earth.
The search giant apparently hopes to encourage curiosity about the world–and its Google Earth map application–by offering overlays of content from the United Nations Environment Program, the Jane Goodall Institute, the U.S. National Park Service and the Discovery Network, alongside its satellite imagery.
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“Think of it as a browser to fly around the planet and discover things about the Earth,” said John Hanke, director of Google Earth and Maps.
Google Earth will include before and after satellite images of environmentally endangered locations originally published by the U.N. Environment Program as a coffee-table book. The Kilimanjaro geographical point on Google Earth, for example, now includes an icon that brings people to a 1976 satellite image of the snow-capped mountain, as well as a more current image sans snow, Hanke said. A timeline slider bar lets people move between the two images to view the significant change.
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