Comments on: Google Sightseeing Safari

By: kaleb krimmel

kaleb krimmel — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:20:50 +0000

krocky this is good

By: Dr. Irshad Ali

Dr. Irshad Ali — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:03:28 +0000

all these photos are not original google earth images but rather purposely taken from Helecopters by a joint team of National Geographic Channel Photographers

By: MANDEEP

MANDEEP — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:40:25 +0000

the best virtual experience…..ever………
really great

By: micah

micah — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:46:38 +0000

i think some people are confused……. the hi res photos are taken from planes and superimposed over the satalite image…. which is why there are shadows/reflections of planes and such…… in the market place all the people are staring at the plane above…… they’re not sensing your watching eye (much delayed) through the lense of a satalite. however, i’m fully sure that the gov has plenty of hi res photos of the entire earth, or local galaxy for that matter…… but that may be my american conspiracy upbringing speaking. but great photos! i saved them all!

By: Mrb

Mrb — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:52:09 +0000

Very odd red tree Alex!

@ John you need to read the post, a mistake I have made from time to time as it says “Here’s another shot of the same hippos” one does seem to be slightly later than the other as a vulture has definitely moved off the hippos back.

By: John

John — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:49:54 +0000

Sorry to disappoint anyone but the 2 pictures of the hippos are actually of the exact same spot. The camera when they took the pics was rotated and hence why i figure they were placed really close to gether. also you can see the same dead hippo in both

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:44:04 +0000

These pictures are incredibly high res. They are like 2-3 times better than anywhere in the USA, easy. And the Sahara is really big. Between the horrendous load times and the trillions of gallons of fuel it would take to criscross the Sahara millions of times for tons of pictures of sand it just ain’t feasible. Why is my keyboard typing so big?

By: Baddinn

Baddinn — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:29:19 +0000

Here is one stupid question. Why do they only but in these small parts of the ground but not the whole county, i mean they have obviously gone all around Africa to take pictures.

By: James

James — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:41:38 +0000

@rob, Alex: Yes, it's official, this is the Best. Sight. Ever. Behold, the new ratings page, where GSS Safari is clearly the top rated sight.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:25:13 +0000

@Alex – That is not the shadow of the plane it is the reflection of the plane in the water. Similar reflections can be found whenever the plane flies over water. It is directly below the plane so It tells us that the photo was not taken exactly vertically.

I wonder why there are no big cats found so far.