Google has teamed up with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to promote awareness of recent atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan. The USHMM has assembled photographs, data and eyewitness testimony to form a Global Awareness layer in Google Earth, which Google has enabled by default for all 200 million Google Earth users. Google Earth is a free application that blends satellite photos with a virtual globe to let users fly around the world and zoom in on any area they want to examine, including specific street addresses.
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Google Earth Zooms Into Heart of Darfur’s Darkness
Posted by: Chris Maxcer April 11, 2007 11:04 AMGoogle has teamed up with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to promote awareness of recent atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan. The USHMM has assembled photographs, data and eyewitness testimony to form a Global Awareness layer in Google Earth, which Google has enabled by default for all 200 million Google Earth users. Google Earth is a free application that blends satellite photos with a virtual globe to let users fly around the world and zoom in on any area they want to examine, including specific street addresses.