Middle Egypt trip report - the Google Earth version

Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens)

Thanks very much to Rhio Barnhart for sending me this link. Fasincating stuff. Thanks to Stefan Geens for making it publicly available. I've now added his site to Google Reader so I'll post any other items that may be of interest. Here's an extract:

Earlier this month I spent a week travelling to archaeological sites in Middle Egypt with a group of Egyptology students from the universities of Leiden and Leuven. The trip was a rare chance to visit places that are off-limits to non-Egyptologists in a part of the country not often visited by foreigners; but it was also a great opportunity to produce a georeferenced addendum to the trip report, with a view to giving it some archival value, as well as making these places come alive for others.

Here's the end result that I will write about in the rest of this post — a KMZ network link that is best opened in Google Earth, as it currently has the best satellite imagery of the region.

The returned KML contains a folder with georeferenced photos uploaded to Flickr, georeferenced 360-degree panorama photos uploaded to 360Cities, destination placemarks, daily tracks, and — turned off by default — every single track point collected during the trip, with popups detailing our movement. The panoramas and photos have captions, while the destination popups contain links to further information on the web.