Brad Ideas - Google maps pointers for all the World Heritage Sites - Comments

GE Community with Israel community data

Ilan Toren — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:03:28 -0700

We have made a kmz file for Google Earth that shows some 700 localities in Israel. It might be an idea for the posting of some of your data. Look at the example and let me know what you think: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=1164471

So is the greece one. This

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:14:36 -0800

So is the greece one. This tool is so cool.

-Jake
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Wow the Citaldel in Haiti

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:13:58 -0800

Wow the Citaldel in Haiti looks awesome!

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Haiti + Citadel

Luke Renner — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:33:36 -0700

The Citadel in Haiti
lat=19.5736643968, lon=-72.2439338679

Google Map it. Zoom In. It's there!

Better

Jam — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:01:25 -0700

That's really closer :)

Delfi, Greece

Dmitriy Cherkashin — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:37:38 -0700

The coordinates are (obtained using GPS):
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.4808,22.5017&spn=0,0&t=k
The place you have linked to is 4 km N of Delfi

Russian Federation, Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye coords

Aleksander Adamowski — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:49:02 -0700

Here is the exact location of Church of the Ascension in Moscow.

You've linked to the general view of Moscow, which is a 8 million megacity...

Russian Federation, Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye coords

Aleksander Adamowski — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:48:57 -0700

Here is the exact location of Church of the Ascension in Moscow.

You've linked to the general view of Moscow, which is a 8 million megacity...

Russian Federation, Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye coords

Olo — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:48:01 -0700

Here is the exact location of Church of the Ascension in Moscow.

You've linked to the general view of Moscow, which is a 8 million megacity...

Olympic National Park

Max — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:16:52 -0700

The Google World Heritage sitesâ€™ Olympic National Park (United States) should have an IMG link of:

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=on&q=O...

Instead of:

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=on&q=O...

Borobudur, Indonesia

Antonius Aji — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 04:20:01 -0700

The Borobudur's coordinates are off.
Here's mine (checked from my GPS record when I visited there and checked from visual record on Google's Map).

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-7.608032,110.204458&spn=0.037594,0.065575&t=k&hl=en

The Borobudur is exactly in the middle of the map (black dot with green circle - the borobodur par).

rgds,
antonius aji
Jakarta, Indonesia.

Prambanan, Indonesia

Antonius Aji — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 03:50:43 -0700

The Prambanan's coordinates are slightly off.
Here's my version:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-7.752056,110.492077&spn=0.079823,0.13114...

The complex is at the riverside and quite closed to main road connecting Solo and Jogja. On the lower-left, you can see Jogja's airport strip.

Even at this zoom level - you can see the temple complex.

rgds,
antonius aji
Jakarta-Indonesia

Marrakesh, morrocco

Gabe — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 10:36:18 -0700

The Marrakesh coordinates are a bit off. Here's something closer

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.638222,-8.002167&spn=.169258,.165138&t=k&hl=en

Google maps pointers for all the World Heritage Sites

brad — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:26:11 -0700

Everybody is having a great time these days with the new and increasing satellite imagery found at Google Maps, finding their own houses and world landmarks.

I found a database built by a Keyhole user describing all the coordinates of the 788 Unesco World Heritage Sites. With a bit of perl magic I turned the Keyhole format into a series of web pages with links to Google satellite imagery.

Some of these landmarks are very cool from above, some are totally boring. Some are in the high-res, many however (especially outside the USA and Canada) are in lower resolution so you can’t see as much. There are links to the Unesco web site for more information on the sites in any event.

You can start with the master page of Google Maps for World Heritage Sites and click to any particular country to see the sites and the links. For example you can click on the USA World Heritage page, and there you will find the link to the satellite image of the Statue of Liberty — where you should then zoom in to see the statue up close. The Mammoth Cave system is not so remarkable from the air. :-)

On pages with low res, you can usually zoom in once or twice, on hi-res pages, you can go in several times to see lots of detail. I fear you can waste a passle of time seeing many of these sites.

Thanks to Aladdin of the Keyhole message board for tabulating the data in Keyhole format.

Just as a side note — right now I am out visiting some real World Heritage Sites (3 in one week) and not correcting my own list in real time.