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7 SEP 07: FLY THE WORLD'S AIRPORTS

VIDEOS of many of the world's airports can now be viewed on the latest version of Google Earth, released in late August.

Version 4.2 of Google Earth, available free from Google's website, is able to 'embed' videos to their site on the world map.

A different web company, Plane-Places, has collected links to more than 2800 videos of airports on YouTube.

Plane-Places said, "Working with EarthNC.com, we rolled together a bit of code that searched YouTube for videos tagged with airport ICAO (international identifier) codes and built a nice worldwide map of airport videos.

"We're not claiming to have exhaustively searched YouTube or error checked every video, in fact we had to refine our search to lower the number of false matches - but this also cut out a lot of airports."

To take advantage of this facility, first download version 4.2 of Google Earth. Then go to Planes-Places and download the .kmz file which contains the links to the YouTube videos. Run Google Earth and aeroplane icons on the map show all the airfields with a video. Click on the icon and the video will start to play - you do need broadband for this.

W: http://earth.google.com/
W: http://planeplaces.com/plane-places/27
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