Virtual Africa Tours included in new SA Tourism Google Earth layer

About the South African Google Earth layer:

The layer was created by the team at Quirk, under the watchful eye of Tim Shier.

They did a great job with the layout and styling of the placemarks and they’ve already picked up some great reviews – the layer isn’t even in the Google Earth Primary Database yet!

We’re obviously very happy to see our virtual tours given such a prominent place and it would be very interesting to keep an eye on the hit statistics in the next few months

It’s enough to make you feel all warm and fuzzy about being a South African.

To read more about the layer – head over to GottaQuirk .

You can download the layer here. (you need to have Google Earth installed to view the file – get it here)

About the virtual tours:

We shot and processed about 60 000 individual pictures in 7 months. Stitched them all into 5000 panoramic images, chose the best 2500 and dropped them into 100 location based virtual tours.

You can enjoy virtual tours of places like Robben Island , the Sterkfontein Caves and Soweto; you can visit the West Coast, check out Namaqualand in the flower season or head over to the Drakensberg – all with the click of a button.

Creating the virtual tours was a lot of work – but we’re really proud of the end result and we hope it can be used to show the world the beauty and diversity that is South Africa.

Virtual Tours on steroids – the next level

Now, if you think that’s cool – you’d be right, it is……

but we’ve been working on the next level of virtual tour integration on our side.

Have a look at our map-in-progress – we’re busy geo-location each of the individual panoramic pictures and dropping them onto Google Maps.

It’s a work in progress, so we would appreciate your comments and suggestions.

Enjoy!

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