Google
has unveiled a new feature of
Google
Earth that allows users to view
YouTube
videos shot in a certain location.
The YouTube content is presented in a special layer on the satellite images.
YouTube publishers have to tag their creations with a location marking for it to
show up on Google Earth.
The overlay does not filter videos, causing a wide variety of content to show
up. A video shot at Buckingham Palace, for instance, offered predictable images
of a
guard
slipping.
But it also showed a video called
Robo
Violence, a stick-figure animation with no apparent link to the royal
dwelling.
YouTube introduced its geo-tagging option earlier this year, allowing users
to leave a push-in on a map to indicate where their video was recorded.
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