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    Google Earth update sinks Atlantis (again)

    By Rick Marshall | Digital Trends – Mon, Feb 6, 2012

    The city of Atlantis has disappeared a second time, thanks to a new update for Google Earth’s ocean topography extension.

    A grid-like pattern on the ocean floor that had appeared in an early version of Google Ocean, an extension of Google Earth that mapped the ocean floor using available sonar data, has been removed in a new update intended to correct bad data. (You can see the old and new versions of the data in the image posted with this article.) Almost as soon as Google Ocean launched in 2009, the network of raised lines in the seafloor sparked discussion that the legendary lost city had been discovered.

    “The original version of Google Ocean was a newly developed prototype map that had high resolution but also contained thousands of blunders related to the original archived ship data,” said David Sandwell, a Scripps geophysicist, in an official statement about the update. “UCSD undergraduate students spent the past three years identifying and correcting the blunders.”

    The update to Google Ocean was rolled out this week, and included new data from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California in San Diego, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and various other groups.

    There’s another major update planned for Google Ocean later this year that should increase its accuracy even further.

    This article was originally posted on Digital Trends

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    7 comments

    • A Yahoo! User  •  3 mths ago
      Google "Cover Up" and let me know what comes up...
    • lucem ferre
      lucem ferre  •  3 mths ago
      its good that google is doing this, in case i ever decide to go for a walk on the ocean floor then i won't get lost...
    • Observe 1
      Observe 1  •  3 mths ago
      Google needs major work map-wise
    • HalfMarathonDon
      HalfMarathonDon  •  3 mths ago
      (You can see the old and new versions of the data in the image posted with this article.) Sorry no images posted. MORONS!
      • Drake
        Drake 3 mths ago
        see the little blue link that says "official statement"? Click on it and it will take you to where you can see the old and new. #$%$ Learn to think and look for data instead of just yelling that it didn't pop up on the page.
      • laethyn
        laethyn 3 mths ago
        wait, Drake, are you saying you expect people to actually read AND comprehend? pffft.
    • Zeb
      Zeb  •  3 mths ago
      hey yahoo, if you're going to copy/paste an article from someone else please read it first to see if it references any photos. If it does, please copy/paste them too.
      • laethyn
        laethyn 3 mths ago
        first, it's not "a copy/paste". It's an automated process.
        Second, my guess is that due to licensing restrictions, they aren't allowed to "copy/paste" the images. It's a way for traffic to be driven to the source.
      • c
        c 3 mths ago
        Links then?
    • John D
      John D  •  Westborough, Massachusetts  •  3 mths ago
      GOOGLE SUCKS!
    • AprilFools
      AprilFools  •  Miami, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      Wait, we found Atlantis? o.o
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