Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
Frank over at the Google Earth Blog pointed us to a Giant Football (Soccer Ball for you yanks) in Dortmund, which will be hosting some of the 2006 FIFA World Football semi-finals next month.
He suggested it’s the world’s largest football, but at about 50ft in diameter I’d say it’s about the half the size of the Japanese example we posted last month. There seems to be a ramp leading into the ball, can any locals tell us what’s inside?
Thanks: Frank
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Tada! I have found the answer! It’s a sculpture, I think, made by André Heller. I may be wrong, but I think it’s portable, and is doing, or has done, a tour of Germany.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=328496&root=worldcup&cc=5739
I remember seeing that ball in berlin few months ago. During dawn it had some fancy lighting on it. I didn’t visit the inside but i think the exhibition was about football
The football is a part of the culture program for the world championship in june in Germany. Inside the WM-Globus there is a 360° screen for projectons, virtual installations and interactive games all around football. The globe is on a tour through all championship cities.
Ground level pics:
http://www.nuernberg.bayern-online.de/b/g/globus_01_g.jpg
http://www.region-muenchen.de/news/1142422452globus.jpg
I read in our newspaper that the football is a coverd-up rollercoaster in a theme park.
I read in our newspaper that the football has a rollercoaster inside and it’s in a themepark.
Guess your newspaper is wrong…or they’re just thinking of another gient football.
btw. there is an “international version” coming soon:
http://www.footballglobegermany.com/
nope, no rollercoaster. ecco was right about it. walked by it in munich, about 4 weeks ago. a few month ago ir was in nuremberg. no idea where it is now…
here you can find the football with the rollercoaster inside:
http://www.europapark.de/page,1,668,de,Home.html
Europapark, Rust, Germany
there aren’t actual google maps available for that region.