Holocaust Museum & Google Earth Darfur Initiative (6 of 6)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Join in Online Darfur Mapping Initiative In this segment, the panelists answer questions from the media. Crisis in Darfur enables people to visualize and better understand the genocide unfolding in Darfur. The Museum has assembled photographs, data and eyewitness testimony for the first time as a Global Awareness layer in Google Earth. High-resolution satellite imagery in Google Earth enables users to zoom into the region to view more than 1,600 damaged and destroyed villages, providing compelling evidence of the scope of destruction. The Museum is using Google Earth to map Holocaust sites with content from its collections, illustrating the enormous scope and impact of the Holocaust. To find Crisis in Darfur on Google Earth, users must download the Google Earth application at no cost from http://earth.google.com. Once downloaded, users will find Crisis in Darfur by flying over Africa. Information on the Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative and the Holocaust mapping layer can be accessed from the Museum's Web site at http://www.ushmm.org/googleearth.

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YouTube | August 10, 2007

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