Satellite image of Sao Paulo from Google Earth

I recently returned from a week in Sao Paulo for the opening of the excellent Art.ficial Emotion 3.0 exhibition at Itau Cultural. Following my recent Flickr addiction I documented the show in a Flickr set, a lot of which is geotagged. It’s worth noting that Aemkei has released a new version of his excellent Flickr geotagging bookmarklet, which caches the previous location found and automatically adds a “see where this picture was taken” link to the photo description.

Another fun tool I’ve been experimenting with is Roblog’s Flickrfly. It is a script which will allow you to “fly” to the location of a geotagged image in Google Earth. Just add a simple link to your image description and Flickrfly takes care of the KML file, including overlaying a thumbnail of your photo on the Google Earth map. The image above was taken in Google Earth, and if you look at the original size on Flickr you will see 4 small thumbnails indicating different images and their actual location.

Do have a look at what Sao Paulo looks like from space, it’s a bit like watching cancer grow. And I liked it there.

Bonus geo links (see Toxi / TomC)

• Geotracing
• Google Earth KML specs (now in version 2.1)
• Battleship: Google Earth