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Subject: [Fwd: Google Earth to the rescue?] getting lost takes on a
whole new meaning
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:37:44 -0300
From: James Boxall <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum"
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In keeping with the theme of getting lost.................
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Subject: Google Earth to the rescue?
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 19:51:17 +0200
From: michael gould <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'EGIP' <[log in to unmask]>
Dear EGIPers (back from holidays):
The following story (or rather Branson’s logic) seems quite odd for more
than one reason…which I will let you discover for yourselves. But
between the lines is another story: if you want something done right
(and, in this case, fast) look to the private sector J
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-09-05T170415Z_01_N05213136_RTRUKOC_0_US-FOSSETT-TECH.xml
<http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-09-05T170415Z_01_N05213136_RTRUKOC_0_US-FOSSETT-TECH.xml>
(the usual warning about copying/pasting this long URL applies)
---cheers,
Mike Gould
RENO, Nevada (Reuters) - British billionaire Richard Branson said on
Wednesday he was hoping to trace Steve Fossett through a satellite
mapping service offered by Internet data provider Google as the search
for the missing U.S. adventurer resumed.
Branson told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. he was worried that
Fossett, who disappeared over the Nevada desert after taking off in a
small plane late on Monday, had not activated the aircraft's emergency
tracking beacon.
"I'm talking with friends at Google about seeing whether we can look at
satellite images over the last four days to see whether they can see
which direction he might have been flying and whether they can see any
disturbances anywhere that they can pin from space," he said from
Barcelona, Spain.
The company's Google Earth product offers a mapping service using
satellite imagery.
The state wing of the Civil Air Patrol resumed its search on Wednesday,
focusing on a 600-square mile (1,554-sq-km) area south of the airstrip
used by Fossett about 80 miles (128 km) southeast of Reno, Nevada.
Aircraft from the Nevada Air National Guard and Naval Air Station,
Fallon, Nevada were joining the search.
On Tuesday 13 aircraft looked in vain for signs of Fossett's plane in
the Nevada desert and mountains.
Branson has teamed up with his friend Fossett on several aviation
adventures and his Virgin company underwrote the U.S. aviator's
successful first solo nonstop flight around the world in 2005.
Cheers,
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Michael Gould
Centro de Visualización Interactiva www.cevi.uji.es <http://www.cevi.uji.es>
Dept. Information Systems (LSI), Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castellón, Spain
email: gould (at) lsi.uji.es // email2: mgould (at) opengeospatial.org
research group www.geoinfo.uji.es <http://www.geoinfo.uji.es> //
personal www.mgould.com <http://www.mgould.com>
AGILE www.agile-online.org <http://www.agile-online.org>
Vespucci Summer Institute www.vespucci.org <http://www.vespucci.org>
Erasmus Mundus: Master in Geospatial Technologies www.mastergeotech.info
<http://www.mastergeotech.info>
--
James C. Boxall, FRGS
Director and Curator
GIS Centre and Map Collection,
Killam Memorial Library
6225 University Avenue,
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia,
B3H 4H8 Canada
http://www.dal.ca
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902.494.6126/6719 (o)
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President, Canadian Cartographic Association
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Vice President, Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia
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