YouTube Airport Videos in Google Earth
Update:We appreciate the wonderful response we’ve been getting about our Airport Videos Google Earth layer below! We’ve got an inbox full of corrections, deletions, and new videos to work through thanks to your help. If you’ve saved the Airport Video layer to your ‘My Places’ folder in Google Earth, it will update automatically each time you load it.
It’s been a long time coming, but yesterday’s release of Google Earth 4.2 covered widely on the internet it is now possible to embed flash videos, such as those on YouTube into the windows version of Google Earth.
Working with EarthNC.com, we rolled together a bit of code that searched YouTube for videos tagged with airport ICAO (international identifier) codes and built a nice worldwide map of airport videos. To see the videos, just click on an airport icon in the map. The resulting map includes over 2800 videos. If the airport has more than 1 video (and many do), you can browse between them using the controls below the video player.
We’re not claiming to have exhaustively searched YouTube or error checked every video, in fact we had to refine our search to lower the number of false matches - but this also cut out a lot of airports. We’ve provided an e-mail link with each video so you can help us weed out incorrect or inappropriate videos. We’ll rerun the search from time-to-time. If you tend to post airport related videos, be sure to tag them with the full 4 character ICAO code and the word ‘airport’. We also suggest that you use YouTube’s new geotagging feature to add a specific latitude/longitude to your video as we will check for this in the future. To submit a video directly, use our new Video Submission Form, all you need is the video link from YouTube, Revver, or other online services, and we’ll add it to the map.
Open in Google Earth 4.2 for Windows ** You Must Download and Install the latest Google Earth for Windows for the Videos to Play! **:
View YouTube Airport Videos by PlanePlaces.com in Google Earth
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August 27th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
That’s awesome.
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August 27th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
All the cities of the World in Video
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August 29th, 2007 at 9:57 am
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August 30th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
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August 30th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Great idea, but for some reason, Google Earth crashes every time I try to run a video.
August 31st, 2007 at 5:45 am
I am glad to find your site. The purpose of my contacting you is - it appears you have influence with the Google Earth staff when it comes to aviation. I hope you pass the following on to them.
Last year I flew down the West and up the East Coast of South America. I used Google Earth to get a preview of the airports. I was surprised to find many of the fields I really needed under clouds or part of a field had good definition and the remaining part displayed in a very low resolution. One airport on a Caribbean island appeared to be at the base of a snow capped mountain. The mountain was barely 2k high - figured that! It turned out that the aerial view of the island that was stitched into the mosaic had a cloud cover.
The following are glaring examples:
SCNT - Puerto Natales, Chile (excellent, well equipped and maintain airport, gateway to one of the most scenic parts of the world.) 51° 40’ 20.54” S, 72° 31’ 32.32.74” W. Using Google Earth the airport is under scattered clouds and the picture is of low quality. Last year, at least the airport was clear of clouds.
SCCI - Punta Arenas, Chile, major airport facility on the Strait of Magellan. 41° 09” 04.12”S, 71° 09’ 33.74”W, low quality picture.
SAZS - San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina (major airport) 41° 09’ 04.12”S, 71° 09’ 33.74”W. Low quality picture.
I think the point is made with the above examples.
Next year I will direct a flight of 7 aircraft around the world and already I am finding some of the airports we plan to use suffering from the above problem.
I hope you can get things changed.
Thank you for your consideration on this matter.
August 31st, 2007 at 5:49 am
Please give me an example of an airport with a video. I tried several with no luck.
Steve
August 31st, 2007 at 11:54 am
Stephen,
1st, Make sure you load our YouTube Airports Google Earth file using the link in the post above. One of my favorites so far is for LOWI - Innsbruck Austria which currently has 17 videos.
As to image quality in Google Earth, Google is certainly working to improve resolution worldwide. They obtain their imagery from a wide range of vendors but as you noted, in many areas it is still somewhat low resolution.
- Virgil