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Mar. 9, 2007 at 9:53am Eastern by Barry Schwartz
Google Earth Super Zooms Are From Google Earth Featured Content
Philipp Lenssen a couple days ago reported Super-Close Google Maps Zooms which got many people saying wow! Philipp discovered that these high-resolution images of camels, people, swimming pools and beach goers was actually from featured content in Google Earth, visible through Google Maps via hacked URLs. Google Sightseeing has a nice explanation of how these images are from Google's Australian fly over and from National Geographic partnership with Google.
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