Google Maps: Mosul City Dam in Iraq.
Submitted on October 30th, 2007 by admin
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The little tip is at the bottom of the post. For the most part this is just something cool to see.
The Iraqi dam pictured below is at risk of collapse. It was built on water-soluble gypsum and started leaking almost immediately after it was built. If it fails, it is predicted that as many as 500,000 people could be killed.
I don’t care about the politics. I just think it is amazingly cool that I can see a picture of this using google map. Heck, I can even embed it here for you guys. Once again, my hat is off to the google boys…
As world attention focuses on the daily slaughter in Iraq, a devastating disaster is impending in the north of the country, where the wall of a dam holding back the Tigris river north of Mosul city is in danger of imminent collapse. “It could go at any minute,” says a senior aid worker who has knowledge of the struggle by US and Iraqi engineers to save the dam. “The potential for disaster is very great.” If the dam does fail, a wall of water will sweep into Mosul, Iraq’s third largest city with a population of 1.7 million, 20 miles to the south. Experts say the flood waters could destroy 70 per cent of Mosul and inflict heavy damage 190 miles downstream along the Tigris.
URL Parts…
http://maps.google.com/maps?
q=http:%2F%2Fbbs.keyhole.com%2Fubb%2Fdownload.php
%3FNumber%3D969827&t=k&om=1&ie=UTF8&z=13
Okay, one quick tip. The links provided above from the official google bbs.keyhole site are zoomed in way too far. The google embedded maps always use the original url. To get the correct zoom area as shown above, I had to change the zoom level directly on the url.
By setting the &z= number within the url, you can set the zoom. I changed it from 19 (which is too close to see anything) to 13.
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