View in Google Earth

Since not all users are familiar with the posibilities of the Google Earth user interface, I wanted to create some content with very minimalistic controls. I love travelling, strange places and photography, so I ended up geolocating images from National Geographic Photography.

National Geographic photo gallery

The content layer contains 8 sets of thumbnails, organised in a tabbed menu. You can fly to the location where a photo was taken by clicking a thumbnail or the photo title. A balloon containing a larger version of the photo opens up (clicking this photo takes you to the photo in the National Geographic gallery in your browser) and arrow buttons give you the possibility to fly to the previous or next image or return to the gallery menu. You may have to zoom out a little to get a better view in areas with low res imagery and not all locations were determined very exactly.

Lake Natron, Tanzania

Finding the photo locations was sometimes hard, sometimes easy but always fun. I used a variety of tools: Locator Firefox plugin, Capture Coordinates in GE tool and the Position Finder mapplet.

Bora Bora