The train to Edal takes 15 minutes, but my hike from there lasts for 7 hours. Partly because I stop several time to read this article by Lisa Parks: Digging into Google Earth: an analysis of “Crisis in Darfur”. It is a very critical analysis of one of the most well known “geo story telling” projects: a collaboration between Google and The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. How strange it is to read a critical analysis on Satellite Image use while sitting on a rocky cliff that overlooks a hilly landscape. I feel like I can take of and fly.
Actually I do read the article before checking out the project itself. I was just to eager to get out this morning and did not want to sit behind computer and check the “Global Awareness” layer under “Layers” in Google Earth. Actually I should do that before saying anything about the article. But after all this walking and “real” aerial views I probably will feel more like sleeping than spending longer behind the computer as soon as I get back to the hotel.
