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Sun Moon Lake is located in the center of Taiwan and is the island’s largest lake. It is a beautiful alpine lake, divided by the tiny Lalu Island; the eastern part of the lake is round like the sun and the western side is shaped like a crescent moon, hence the name “Sun Moon Lake”.

In my article posted in July “aeroFoto Formosa in Google Earth in a browser“, I showed Taiwanese aero photographer chi’s pictures in Google Earth Browser Plugin. In recent days, I find PhotoOverlay can be displayed by plugin as well. Therefore I give it a try with 22 Sun-moon Lake pictures.

Although Browser Plugin shows PhotoOverlay, the API functionality is not complete. For instance, “zooming bar” and “close” of controller on top right corner don’t work. Fortunatelly, I can zoom with mouse wheel. But I have to figure out another way to close photo viewer. I add a placemark file so that you can entre Snapshot View of the placemark and close photo viewer. Then you are able to fly to spots one by one with left hand side placemarks. Double click the icon on the centre of screen to entre PhotoOverlay mode. Thereafter you can zoom with your mouse wheel and fly to another aero-photo by the pervious operation.

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I have a friend living in Buenos Aires, Cai Shifang. I asked him to help me the translation into a foreign language. He translated the article into Spanish because his Spanish is better than English .Therefore, I use Spanish to show this article as below.

Mis hijos me recomendaron la película (El cabo #7), pero no tenía mucha gana de verla.

Cambié la idea cuando Louis me acordó que yo pedía poner “El cabo #7” en GE con quién encontramos en la compañía de Google en Taiwán hace unos días atrás. Salí temprano de casa el día siguiente para ir a ver la película. Pensé que la primera función podría tener menos gente pero cuando llegué al cine a las 9 y 50 ya había una larga cola. La mayoría de los espectadores eran de mi edad (de los 50 años para arriba). Por fin conseguí la entrada para la tercera.

Durante 2 horas y 20 minutos de la película no cedía la risa de los espectadores. Hace mucho tiempo no veía una similar que me emocionó tanto. ¡Excelente! Les re-recomiendo.

Saber el lugar de filmación de la película no es tan fácil como mostrar la locación de interés en GE. Encontré bastante información acerca de la película buscando en Google. Por ejemplo Sitio de WikiGPS localizó varios puntos de filmación. Pero solo decir los lugares no es tan atractivo como ilustrarlo con imágenes. Al final entré “El Blog oficial de la película” que tiene muchos clips. Junté 12 de ellos e hice esta página para compartir con ustedes.

Si quiere navegar “El cabo #7” en GE, puede bajar aquí. En el archivo puse 5 videos cortos de Youtube más aerofotos de Chi y 3 moldes de Jim Hsu. También es interesante visitar “Parque Nacional Keng-Din”.

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the Official Website of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

The Marathon will be held on 2008/8/24 7:00am.The route of the marathon starting at Tian’anmen Square and ending at the National Stadium, also known as the Bird’s Nest. Runners will pass the scenic districts of Xuanwu, Dongcheng, Chongwen, Xicheng, Haidian and Chaoyang.

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I have an another blog which introduces how to run marathon in GE.
I was used to use GE. Since the new Google Earth browser plugin was released , I try to run it on the new interface.

Chicago Marathon is the first test. I made many placemarks by each Kilometer or turning point. In this application you can move forward manually or automatically.

Turn on the 3D Buildings layer, It’s great to run marathon between the vitural buildings in Chicago. However, streaming failed to keep pace with the speed of running a marathon. If you use automatical mode, please turn off the 3D layer.

By the way, here are some infomation about Chicago Marathon:

Chicago Marathon Website
Held:2008/10/12
Start:1977
Capacity:45000
Records: 2:17:18 – Paula Radcliffe, 2002
2:05:42 – Khalid Khannouchi, 1999

The Senkaku Islands, also known as the Diaoyutai Islands in Chinese, are a group of disputed, uninhabited islands currently controlled by Japan, but also claimed by the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People’s Republic of China. The islands are located roughly northeast of Taiwan, due west of Okinawa, and due north of the end of the Ryukyu Islands in the East China Sea.

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Since the new Google Earth browser plugin was released last week, I immediately tried to use this interface to display Taiwan aerophotos whick was taken by Chi Polin. Well, now you can click on the image above or click here, and enter the Browser to watch those hundreds of aerophotos in Google Earth.

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Wenchuan County in Sichuan Province in mainland China on May 12, 2008 at 2:28 in the 7.8 Richter scale earthquake shook a half in Asia, and even far away in about 1,900 km of Taiwan have the feeling the amazing power. The officials said this morning the number of deaths nearly 10,000 people.

You can download the KMZ Collection into Google Earth to watch the epicenter, and its power!

According to length, the world’s longest cross-sea bridge 10 are as follows:
1.Hangchow Bay Bridge
2.Donghai Bridge
3. King Fahd Causeway
4.Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel
5. Vasco da Gama Bridge
6. Penang Bridge
7. Rio-Niteroi Bridge
8. Confederation Bridge
9. San Mateo-Hayward Bridge
10. Seven Mile Bridge

You can download this KMZ collection to enjoy this parade in Google Earth!

In response to “Global Earth Day,” NASA released the 10 most popular photos on April 21. These photos were all taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. All of them are fantastic.

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A small hill on a plain usually becomes a leisure place for surrounding residents. But the terrain on Google Earth does not seem to be significant engough, so I set the elevation exaggeration to 3. And then I use the SpaceNavigator to fly around the island of Taiwan. As a result, I was able to find a total of 16 small hills. By providing one description for each hill, I have connected those placemarks in the flyover video for those hills.If you want to visit those hills in Taiwan, you can download this KML Collection .