ʻAuhea kahi kikowaena o Google Earth?
Eia naʻe, ka papa mua o Google Earth,ʻo Lawrence Kansas. Pono e hoʻomaopopoʻia ka hoʻohanaʻia o ka polokalamu Windows i hoʻokahi wale nōʻaoʻao, no laila, no ka manawa pōkole, kahi paʻamau o Google Earth no ka meaʻo Lawrence, Kansas.
No ke ahaʻo Lawrence?
Ua uluʻo Brian McClendon ma Lawrence, Kansas, a hele akulaʻo ia mai ke Kulanui o Kansas i ka makahiki 1986 me ke kēkelē i ka hanaʻenekini elekene. Ua hoʻohanaʻo ia i kona mau akamai i mea e pono ai a ua heleʻo ia e kōkua i ka loaʻaʻana o kahi hui i kapaʻiaʻo Keyhole, ka mea iʻae iāʻoe e nānā i nā kiʻi kelepuni o ka honua. Ua kūʻaiʻiaʻo Keyhole e Google i ka makahiki 2004 a liloʻo ia i Google Earth . ʻO McClendon kona pelekikena pelekikena o ka'enekino e mālama ana i nā huahana o Google, me Google Maps a me ka Honua a hiki i kona haʻaleleʻana iā 2015 no Uber.
Ua hoʻokiʻekiʻeʻo McClendon i kona home ma mua ma ka hanaʻana iā Lawrence i kahi hoʻomaka o ka hoʻomakaʻana o ka Windows version of Google Earth. Ināʻoʻoe e hoʻokokoke loa aku,ʻo Meadowbrook Apartments kahi kiko'ī, kahi koho noho kūlana kaulana ma waena o nā haumānaʻo KU.
Hoʻomaka pinepineʻo Brian McClendon i kahi huakaʻi iā Lawrence a hāʻawi iā ia i $ 50,000 o kāna kālā pono'ī e kūʻai aku i nā papahana Android Xoom no ka hanaʻenehana a me nā haumāna'elekema i ke kula. Uaʻaeʻia nā haumāna e mālama i nā papa ma hope o ka hoʻopauʻiaʻana o nā polokalamu I a me II me ka mea he nui a C a me ka mea EECS.
Ka Papa o Google Earth no Macs
Ua hoʻomakaʻo Brian McClendon e hoʻoholo i ke kikowaena o ka Windows Earth, akā,ʻo Dan Webb keʻea pūnaewele pūnaewele no ka hoʻoholo i ke kikowaena o Google Earth no Macs. Ua uluʻo ia i kahi māla ma Chanute, Kansas, aʻo ia ka kikowaena o ka papa Mac o Google Earth. ʻO Dan Webb hoʻiʻo iaʻo ke kula kiʻekiʻeʻo KU, akā kohoʻo ia i kona Chanie home no ka wahi kūpono kahi i hōʻoiaʻo Brian McClendon no kāna kohoʻo Lawrence.
Aia i hea ka Real Geographic Center o USA?
ʻAʻole ka poho pūnaewele i ka pūnana maoli, no laila,ʻaʻole i pili ke koho. ʻO nā Europa e like me ka nānāʻana i ke ao honua meʻEulopa i waenakonu, aʻike nāʻAmelika iā ia me USA me ke kikowaena. ʻO nā kumu no ke kohoʻana i Chanute a me Lawrence Kansas ma nā kikowaena o Google Earth no ka mea kokoke lākou i ke kikowaena o nā USA, a he mau koho kūlohelohe lākou. Eia naʻe,ʻo ka 'āina kiko honua o nā mokupuniʻoʻAmelika nei,ʻaʻole ia he koho me ka hakakāʻole. Ināʻoe e helu ana i ka waenakonu o nā USA, ponoʻoe e helu i nā 50 āpau a iʻole ka poʻe wale nō i paʻi pūʻia?
Ināʻoe e hele i nā kaonaʻo 48, kahi kahi kokoke i Lebanona, Kansas me kahi marker e koho ana iā iaʻo ke kiko honua. Ua kūkulu houʻia ka pahu ma hope o ka hae wale nō he 48 mau hōkū, a he mea pono paha kahi kiko waena. ʻO kahi kahi e waiho pinepine ai kou manamanalima inā e kuhikuhiʻoe ma kekahi palapala'āina o USA. Eia naʻe, Lebanon,ʻo Kansas he 225 mile loa mai Lawrence mai, aiʻole i kahi holaʻehā hora. ʻOi aku kahi kokoke i 300 mile.
Inā heluʻoe i nā 50 āpau a pau e kū nei, aia kokoke ke kikowaena kokoke iā Belle Fourche, South Dakota. ʻO Lawrence kahi o 786 mau mile a me kahi Chanie 874 mile mai ke kula'āina o USA.