{"id":22,"date":"2007-04-08T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/i-just-found-something-called-google-earth.html"},"modified":"2010-03-20T17:14:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T23:14:31","slug":"i-just-found-something-called-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/i-just-found-something-called-google.html","title":{"rendered":"I Just Found Something Called Google Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just kidding. But lately I&#8217;ve been using it to check out places in Peru. Some of the field school students wanted to know where their hostel is located. I scanned over the city of Lima until I found the right place. I guess you can&#8217;t tell much about crime and sanitation from the Google Earth view. They should make map overlays for crime and population density like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SimCity\">SimCity<\/a> has. Knowing Google, that&#8217;s coming.<\/p>\n<p>I also looked around the country for archaeological sites. Most have been previously marked so it was pretty easy. You can see how huge some of the city-sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chan_Chan\">Chan Chan<\/a> are. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blogpic\"><a href=\"..\/..\/blog\/files\/pictures\/chanchan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/blog\/files\/pictures\/chanchan_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Chan Chan, from above\" \/><\/a><br \/><span class=\"minitext\">{View of Chan Chan from Google Earth. A small vertical bar to the left is a bus, for scale.}<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you want to see my Google Earth collection so far, download these tiny files and fire up Google Earth: <a href=\"https:\/\/keithcchan.com..\/..\/..\/..\/blog\/files\/GE\/Field_School_Locations.kmz\">Field School Sites<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/keithcchan.com..\/..\/..\/..\/blog\/files\/GE\/Peruvian_Archaeological_Sites.kmz\">Peruvian Archaeological Sites<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just kidding. But lately I&#8217;ve been using it to check out places in Peru. Some of the field school students wanted to know where their hostel is located. I scanned over the city of Lima until I found the right place. I guess you can&#8217;t tell much about crime and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/i-just-found-something-called-google.html\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;I Just Found Something Called Google Earth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20],"tags":[8,21,9],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}