Google has just realeased a new "Geographic Web Layer" for Google Earth, turning an already fun application into one that's even richer in photos and info, thanks to Wikipedia, Panoramio, and the Google Earth Community. Made public Saturday, here's what the official Google blog has to say about this:
"We've taken the rich data of Wikipedia, Panoramio, and the Google Earth Community and made a browsable layer in Google Earth. Now you can fly anywhere in the world and see what people have written about it, photographed, or posted. I went hopping around from the southern tip of South America to the mosques in the Middle East to the Maldives Islands, immersed in a wealth of information, and I really felt like I was visiting each place through eyes of people who had been there. It was really engaging to compare, say, the Grand Canyon through the photos in Panoramio to the view from Google Earth, where I could follow the Colorado River through each.
Give it a look-see.
