Burning Man 2011
by Google Earth Blog on Sep.13, 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
As they did last year, GeoEye again captured a high-res image of the Burning Man event in northern Nevada. The image was posted at geeked.info, and we took it and turned into a KML image overlay.
The image is remarkably sharp, but it's over 12MB in size so it'll take a few seconds for it to load in Google Earth.
As part of the environmentally-friendly policies that Burning Man institutes, such as "Leave No Trace", they move the exact location around a little bit to help minimize the impact on the area. To illustrate that, here are outlines of Burning Man 2003, 2009 and 2011, and you can see the gradual shift.
To view those overlays in Google Earth, simply load this KML file.