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Dev_null
09-24-2005, 07:51 PM
In August this Year a group of young students from the German Europen School Singapore tagged a whale shark with an sattelite-tag, where the data now being published in the web trough a google earth KML-file. This 7 meter long male Shark, named "Schroeder" now is on it's way from the Seychelles to - maybe - Somalia (Afrika). During the last few weeks you could see a move of over 700 KM ....

The KML File is updated via a Database and PHP script every time the sattelite carrier sends new data - about once a day.

You can download the KML file here (http://www.seeadlerpost.com/geocache/whaleshark.kmz)

For more information please visit the project website (http://www.seeadlerpost.com)!




Regards,
André



http://www.seeadlerpost.com/geocache/pos_21sep.jpg
(Schroeder traveled almost 700KM)

Stadsman
09-27-2005, 05:00 PM
very nice, thanks for sharing this with us!

War_Peace
09-27-2005, 10:14 PM
Pretty cool, actually...

socrates
09-28-2005, 09:20 AM
I wonder how many people in Whale research are looking at this...
This is good !

Japanese might not like it as it limits the need for them to take whales for "research"....

well its going to be a great research tool !!