Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Explore the Haitian Damage

I’m an avid user of Google Earth, a program everyone should have downloaded and installed on their computer.

Now the folks at Google have made available an amazing collection of high resolution satellite image overlays of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding countryside. It’s an amazing, and horrifying, set of images. I randomly zoomed in to parts of the city and everywhere I looked there was damage, destruction, and tent cities. Here are a few random screen shots:

High altitude picture of Port-au-Prince

 

A football stadium turned into a hospital/boarding facility

 

The streets are filled with rubble, the buildings collapsed

Go here to download both Google Earth and the high resolution images

1 comment:

Bali said...

Google Earth is much nicer now since you can actually experience like you're in the spot of the pinned location. It's like 3D experience.