A Google Earth memorial for Andria Ruben McCool
by Google Earth Blog on Jul.21, 2011, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA
Last month, Google lost one of their own when Andria Ruben McCool passed away unexpectedly. Andria was around since the Keyhole days of Google Earth, and she was a a driving force behind the impressive "Crisis in Darfur" layer that Google introduced in 2007.
As a sharp-eyed GEB reader discovered recently, Google has built a simple in-Earth memorial to Andria in the form of a labeled body of water, as shown here:
You'll need to make sure to have "Water Bodies" checked inside of your layers section (Borders and Labels --> Labels) to see the text. Here is a KMZ file
to fly you to the exact location.
It's nice to see Google honor her life like this, even if it's a very small token. As far as I know, this the first memorial of this kind in Google Earth. Have you ever seen anything like this in Google Earth before?