Google Earth maps Sudan’s Darfur Crisis in a project with US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Yesterday, Google’s online satellite imaging site Google Earth announced that it would be adding features that allow users to zoom in on the crisis in Sudan’s Western Darfur region. Sadly, since 2003 more than 200,000 people have been killed in strife-torn region of Darfur, and some of this carnage has been detailed by Google Earth.
Google is working with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in a joint project, in which the search giant has updated its Google Earth service with high-resolution satellite images of the region to document destroyed villages, displaced people and refugee camps.
When Google Earth users scan over the Darfur region, Google hopes to attract their attention to the specially placed icons. The icons represent destroyed villages with flames, and refugee camps with rents.
Thus, when a user zooms in to a level of magnification, the icons seem to indicate that much of the Darfur region is on fire. By clicking on a flame icon, a window opens showing the village’s name and the statistics on the extent of destruction.
Besides, Google has also enhanced the resolution for certain areas of the region so users can zoom in to see the burned remains of houses in Darfur.
In the future, Google has said that it will periodically update the images of the Darfur region as seen via Google Earth.
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April 13th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Why dont Google and others did this in Afganistan, Iraq or in Kuwait….any clue…No. Ok let me give you answer , because there Muslims are killing Muslims so why one care about to see them killed…now you got it too.
The ethics of a content provider or a news agency is to publish everything without any descrimination of any race and religion. Everyone knows that why Darfar is much exaggerated in news than other countries on the globe. I feel sorry about the western media and the technology giants doing all this in the name of Human Rights. And above all , Google did all this with the corporation of some so called Holocaust museum is a another evidence of the same discrimination. If they are so clear and honest do all this on the US effected areas of the world where the humanity seeks our attention more than others.
October 21st, 2007 at 5:04 pm
what about kurdistan?
why doesnt anyone in America ever pay attention to KUrdistan?