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toml [PersonRank 6]

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
15 years ago2,628 views

http://earth.google.com/rome/

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Official Blog post by Gianni Alemanno, Mayor of Rome:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/invitation-from-mayor-of-rome-come-see.html

Zim [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Yay! The link wasn't working this morning :)

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

[Moved from "Ancient Rome now in Google Earth" ~ hebbet
Link:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iTaV7Lu7CnTQBzTcpKnkVWMxIMbQD94DLDV80

"Google Earth has added to its software a 3-D simulation that painstakingly reconstructs nearly 7,000 buildings of ancient Rome, including the Colosseum, the Forum and the Circus Maximus, officials said Wednesday.

The program, which gives users access to maps and global satellite imagery, now hosts a new layer that allows surfers to see how Rome might have looked in A.D. 320, a bustling city of about 1 million people under Emperor Constantine.
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