Getting a taste of the world around you through the power of your fingertips is a lot more easier than you would have thought. Sure the internet itself has a plethora of resources that’ll give you access to the information that you may be searching for, but Google’s approach to the World Wonders project offers a much smoother access to these life wonders. Their street view technology brings the world heritage sites all under one umbrella. Its a lot more manageable to gather visual information that you are seeking on for modern or ancient world wonders through this project.
Brief overview of a world wonder along with its location, photographs, street view etc.
The image above demonstrates on the left side of the page the refine search engine along with various tabs that help with specifying topics. As you progress through the project you get more than just the street view of a world wonder, there are ariel animations, art that is associated with the location of that world wonder, and many photographs. When selecting the artist’s name from the photographs, the site takes you to the wide held collection of that photographer.
Photographs all under one photographer’s collection.
The sources google gathered the criteria from for this project range from the contribution of their technology: street view of the monuments, to photographer’s collection of the monuments. Some of the contributing collections are from museums such as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, The Fine Arts Zanabazar Museum, along with Heritage Foundations, surveys, and the World Monument Fund to name a couple. The organization of the world wonders are all under their respective locations which makes it easy to keep track of. The presentation of the Wonders are mainly interpreted visually through the combination of photographs, animation videos, and some cultural artifacts that are associated with the monuments that are being showcased.
This is one of the coolest>/i> things ever! I really appreciate that the project was very interactive. The images really caught my eyes. Thank for sharing!
I agree with Nicolas! This is a really cool project–I think linking the streetview pictures with actual photographs and history of sites was a great idea. I wonder if they could take it a step further, and make almost a virtual tour of these sites? If you could travel through the streetview view of one of these locations and see little points appear on sites of interest, with historical info, now that would be cool.
This is a very beautiful project indeed. The front-end is simple yet does a great job in displaying photos. The User Interface also seems straightforward and efficient.