Egypt
Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens)
See the above page for additional details.
- Resource: Hieroglyphs On Your Iphone
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts) Jean-François Dumon and Alamanga have developed 'Aaou', an application for iPhone and iPodTouch which allows a quick translation of hieroglyphs. The iPhone app over 10,000 words or symbols to - depending on your iPhone...
- Ess Delta Survey Explores The Archaeology Of The Nile Delta With Google Earth
Egypt Exploration Society The satellite imagery available through Google Earth is a valuable resource for archaeological research. The program is free for download from the Web. Use the Latitude and Longitude coordinates for the archaeological sites included...
- Cemetery G2100 Virtual Exhibit
harvard.edu The exhibit recreates 10 mastaba-tombs from Cemetery G 2100 of Giza Necropolis in both Second Life and Google Earth virtual worlds. The majority of the archaeological diagrams and photographs used to create the models were made by the Harvard...
- Google Earth Tracks Journey Of Ramses
http://tinyurl.com/gddyw (int.iol.co.za) "Google Earth mapped the route for a colossal statue of ancient Egypt's powerful warrior king, Ramses II, from congested Cairo to a new home near the pyramids.Google Earth, owned by the world's top Internet...
- Luxor Via Google Earth
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=253For anyone planning a visit to Luxor, Jane Akshar has passed on a tip from some of her visitors at the above URL on her Luxor News blog. Satellite images from Google Earth delivered detailed images of the area,...
Egypt
Exploring Middle Egypt with Google Earth - further notes
Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens)
In the rush to publish the previous post about my Middle Egypt KML trip report (I was also packing for a day just spent travelling) I forgot to mention several further points I had on my mental to-do list:
* Google Earth + iPhone = awesome ruin navigation tool:
While the iPhone isn't any good for making tracks, it was a most excellent mobile Google Earth — Especially in Egypt, where the base imagery is 2.5m Spot Image instead of 15m used elsewhere, and where most archaeological sites have glorious high-resolution DigitalGlobe imagery, the result of many special requests by archaeological institutes over the years.
My iPhone happens to be locked to a Swedish contract, which implies ridiculously expensive data rates abroad, so I don't do mobile surfing with it while in Egypt. (When-oh-when will EU regulators call this practice what it is — cartel pricing — and make it illegal for European carriers?). I do, however, surf on hotel wifi (provided free even in the cheap ones) so during my trip, I spent some time each evening visiting the next day's sites on my iPhone.
Since Google Earth for iPhone keeps its imagery in a huge cache, I don't need to connect to the internet later to use Google Earth while in the field — all the imagery is right there in the cache from the night before.
See the above page for additional details.
- Resource: Hieroglyphs On Your Iphone
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts) Jean-François Dumon and Alamanga have developed 'Aaou', an application for iPhone and iPodTouch which allows a quick translation of hieroglyphs. The iPhone app over 10,000 words or symbols to - depending on your iPhone...
- Ess Delta Survey Explores The Archaeology Of The Nile Delta With Google Earth
Egypt Exploration Society The satellite imagery available through Google Earth is a valuable resource for archaeological research. The program is free for download from the Web. Use the Latitude and Longitude coordinates for the archaeological sites included...
- Cemetery G2100 Virtual Exhibit
harvard.edu The exhibit recreates 10 mastaba-tombs from Cemetery G 2100 of Giza Necropolis in both Second Life and Google Earth virtual worlds. The majority of the archaeological diagrams and photographs used to create the models were made by the Harvard...
- Google Earth Tracks Journey Of Ramses
http://tinyurl.com/gddyw (int.iol.co.za) "Google Earth mapped the route for a colossal statue of ancient Egypt's powerful warrior king, Ramses II, from congested Cairo to a new home near the pyramids.Google Earth, owned by the world's top Internet...
- Luxor Via Google Earth
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=253For anyone planning a visit to Luxor, Jane Akshar has passed on a tip from some of her visitors at the above URL on her Luxor News blog. Satellite images from Google Earth delivered detailed images of the area,...