Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
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Travel site Arounder uses Google maps to organize interactive, panoramic exhibits of a number of European cities and a few American sites. For each location listed on Arounder, a number of panoramic views are available including views of church interiors, city streets, public plazas, and natural or manufactured landscapes.
Telling River Stories from the University of Minnesota and the River Life Program is a project that explores how people, past and present, have experienced life along the Mississippi. The interactive map covers arts, cultures and indigenous people; land, water and science; and city planning, design, infrastructure, transportation and recreation, with a particularly emphasis on the development of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Google Earth has incorporated into its virtual globe a selection of fourteen masterpieces from the Museo del Prado’s collection, including the “Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch and Diego Velázquez’ “Las Meninas,” as well as a three dimensional depiction of the museum. Images are restoration-quality and 1,400 times clearer than what can be rendered with a 10-megapixel camera. Scrutinize brushstrokes and varnish cracks – details you were once only able to see while standing on a ladder with your face pressed to the canvas.
Ancient Rome 3D is a digital recreation of over 7,000 buildings during the reign of Constantine (circa 320 CE). The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia and the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory began developing Rome Reborn in 1997. This November, Google Earth published the largest, most comprehensive version of the project.
Ancient Rome 3D also links to other scholarly sources, including Stanford’s Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project. Carved on the walls of the Templum Pacis between 203-211 CE, the map of Rome includes extremely detailed floor plans of everything from public baths to apartments. It originally measured 60×43 feet but now exists only in fragments. Ten percent of the original artifact has survived.
From the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection:
The over 120 historical maps in the Google Maps and Google Earth Rumsey Historical Maps sites have been selected by David Rumsey from his collection of more than 150,000 historical maps; in addition, there are a few maps from collections with which he collaborates. These maps can also be seen in the Gallery layer of Google Earth, Rumsey Historical Maps layer.
All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods (1680 to 1930), scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe.
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Archiportal, by Zac Stein, is a mashup that uses Google Maps and Freebase allowing one to search on featured architects and cities. In addition, like Wikipedia, you can contribute content to the site (one must sign up to do so).
Supported browsers include Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and Safari.
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