31 October 2012

SAROO MUNSHI KHAN BRIERLEY FINDS HIS BIRTH MOTHER USING GOOGLE EARTH : VANITY FAIR ARTICLE LINK HERE

VANITY FAIR : A HOME AT THE END OF GOOGLE EARTH

The power of Google Earth!

Have you tried it?

You put in an address and enter.  You watch the screen as the camera focuses in on the location - often the exact street address - that  you want.  You get to see a picuture of that place as it was, say a few months ago, frozen in time.   This story, featured in November 2012 Vanity Fair magazine is quite wonderful.  A boy was separated from his brother and became an ophan in Calcutta, India.  He was adopted by Americans but years later, using his memory and Google earth, was able to locate his mother and sister!