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Virtual Whaleshark tracking

A timely follow-up on the subject of computer mapping: Google have released a beta of Google Earth 4. If you haven’t tried Google Earth, you seriously must: it’s one of the best web-enabled applications you can buy (except it’s free, of course!).

Among the new features is support for time stamps: that means that the application can display geographic data over time.

One of the samples included in the November edition of The Sightseer, Google’s newsletter for Google Earth users, is the path taken by a migrating whaleshark through the Indian Ocean last year.

Whaleshark in Google Earth