I just made a work “2012 Kaohsiung International Marathon in Google Earth” (Chinese) by my unique animation method. I found the 3.5 Km “Fun Run” path with street view. So I got an idea to record the street view tour along this path with marathon signs (direction and mileage) . This is an innovative way. Share to Everyone!
Kaohsiung is the second largest city in Taiwan, with a population around 2.9 million, located in southwestern Taiwan. It is a center for manufacturing, refining, shipbuilding, and other light and heavy industries.
Urban Development Bureau of Kaohsiung City Government took a project of aerofoto for several years. When those photographs are enough, thereby they established a website of “great aerial view of Kaohsiung“. Those photographs are open to the public to download.
With such a good resource, I can not help my desire to create. I make a photos tour controller. Press “Start” to start the 66 aerofotos tour. “+” for accelerate, “-” for decelerate, “||” for pause and you can zoom this photo, “>>” for next photo, “<<” for prev poto. Enjoy it!
There is a big event in this year’s last day in Taiwan, It’s a nationwide cycling trip set to break record.
The activity is designed for participants to cycling around Taiwan, including surrounding islands Penghu, Kinmen and Lienchiang counties. The total length is about 1,000km. There will be 100,000 departure points around Taiwan. It is free to join, anyone can choose their preferred departure point and register on line. At 10:00AM, Dec. 31th, 2011, millions of riders will start to cycle in a clockwise direction. Media will broadcast the event lively. 3G smart phone holders can download official APP, which delivers personal GPS signals during the ride. Their riding progress could be immediately checked on their specific web page on the official web site. Furthermore, audiences can also share this moment through internet.
This event is under application of Guinness World Record “Largest parade of bicycles (multiple venues)”.
For me, this is a rare opportunity to show the event in Google Earth. So I made this work, in addition to Youtube above, but you can also download the KMZ
file to see the big event.
[20111231 Update]
Event Sets World Record
At about 4:50 p.m., Tong Cheng from the Guinness World Record authenticated the event as a record-breaking one with a total of 72,919 participants.
The previous world record for the most bikers riding at once stood at 48,615, which was set in Italy in 2000, with 48,615 people cycling at the same time.
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“God of Apple” imminent demise, I would like this works for Remembering!
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Tang, a Google Supermodeler, made a whole campus models for his mother school, NTIT (National Taichung Institute of Technology) in May. That’s a great job! I appreciated his work, so I made about 100 panos (Home-made street view) around the whole campus at the same time. Finally, I made this campus tour with panos (as reality) and models (as virtual). You can press the “Start” button to enter the pano tour at first. Then you can simply drag the left image around to view any particular area, and the right image will stay in sync automatically.
