Google maps pointers for all the World Heritage Sites

Submitted by brad on Sat, 2005-06-25 18:26
Topic: 
Photography

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.

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Comments

Gabe

Sun, 2005-06-26 11:36

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

Jam

Mon, 2007-07-09 13:01

That's really closer :)

Antonius Aji

Mon, 2005-06-27 04:50

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

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-7.752056,110.492077&spn=0.079823,0.131149&t=k&hl=en

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

Antonius Aji

Mon, 2005-06-27 05:20

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.

Max

Mon, 2005-06-27 11:16

The Google World Heritage sites’ 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=Olympic+National+Park

Instead of:

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

Olo

Wed, 2005-06-29 08:48

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...

Aleksander Adamowski

Wed, 2005-06-29 08:48

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...

Aleksander Adamowski

Wed, 2005-06-29 08:49

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...

Dmitriy Cherkashin

Wed, 2005-06-29 09:37

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

Luke Renner

Fri, 2007-08-03 19:33

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

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

Anonymous

Wed, 2008-02-06 23:13

Wow the Citaldel in Haiti looks awesome!

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Ilan Toren

Sun, 2008-05-11 11:03

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

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